Japanese Warship Shohei Maru
Shōhei Maru ( 昇平丸?) was a Japanese wooden-hulled three-masted barque-rigged sailing ship. Japan's second modern Western-style warship, she was built in 218 years since the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate’s national seclusion policy which outlawed the construction of ocean-worthy vessels. She served with the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa navy. She should not be confused with the World War II passenger/cargo vessel of the same name, sunk by the submarine USS Spadefish (SS-411) off of Korea.
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