Motor sailing ship - Kihansen

A small sailing ship equipped with an internal combustion engine as an auxiliary propulsion engine. They are up to about 200 gross tons in size, and are mostly wooden ships. They were used for cargo transport on coastal routes until the 1960s, but are now rarely used. Motor sailing ships are a type of ship unique to Japan, with sails ranging from small one-masted sloops to large two-masted schooners. They were equipped with a hot-bulb engine as a propulsion engine, but this was auxiliary, and they were primarily sailed, so under the Ship Law they were treated as sailing ships.

[Morita Tomoharu]

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補助の推進機関として内燃機関を備えた小型の帆船。大きさは総トン数200トン前後までで、木造船が多く、1960年代までは沿岸航路の貨物輸送に活躍したが、現在ではほとんど使われなくなっている。機帆船は日本独特の船型で、帆装は小型のものでは1本マストのスループsloopから、大型のものでは2本マストのスクーナーschoonerがあった。機関として焼き玉機関を備えていたが、これは補助で、主体は帆走であり、船舶法では帆船として取り扱われていた。

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