• During a ceremony held Friday marking 150 years since the Kaiyo Maru was launched, Takamitsu Enomoto (far right), a great-grandson of Takeaki Enomoto, a Tokugawa naval officer who commanded a fleet that included the warship, and others look at a plaque erected in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, to commemorate the building of the vessel. | KYODO
    During a ceremony held Friday marking 150 years since the Kaiyo Maru was launched, Takamitsu Enomoto (far right), a great-grandson of Takeaki Enomoto, a Tokugawa naval officer who commanded a fleet that included the warship, and others look at a plaque erected in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, to commemorate the building of the vessel. | KYODO

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DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS – A Dutch city held a ceremony Friday to commemorate 150 years since the launch of a ship commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867), with descendants of the vessel’s Japanese crew attending the event.

The Kaiyo Maru was launched on Nov. 12, 1865, in the renowned shipbuilding city of Dordrecht. It was the largest wooden warship built in the Netherlands at the time.

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