The Meiji government ordered the shipyard in Glasgow, U.K., to build the Meiji-Maru for lighthouse patrol services, the ship was completed in 1874.
In 1978, the Meiji-Maru was designated a National Important Cultural Property as the only existing iron ship in Japan.
To this day it remains a valuable heritage that conveys the shipbuilding technology of the iron ship era.
Also the Meiji Maru is the first ship to be designated an Important Cultural Property.
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A museum ship in Koto district, Tokyo.
It is displayed at the Etchujima Campus of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
Tokyo Ulysses Project no. 003-002
