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In 1886, Kawasaki established a second shipyard in Kobe, Hyōgo prefecture. With the First Sino-Japanese War, the two shipyards were flooded with new orders and ship repair requests. [2] The two shipyards were merged in 1896 as the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Ltd.
Launch of battleship Haruna at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard, Kobe, 1913. Shipbuilding is the historical industry in which Kawasaki Heavy Industries was created and developed, as from the company's 1878 founding as the Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Its product ...
Kawasaki Shōzō (川崎 正蔵, August 10, 1837 – December 2, 1912) was a Japanese industrialist and shipbuilder. [1] He was the founder of Kawasaki Heavy Industries . Biography
"K" Line traces its origin to Kawasaki Heavy Industries, which itself was born in 1878, when founder and entrepreneur Kawasaki Shōzō established Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard in Tokyo, Japan, which, eighteen years later, in 1896, was incorporated as Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd.
History; Empire of Japan; Name: Yodo: Ordered: 1904 Fiscal Year: ... Yodo was the first warship to be built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries at its Kawasaki Shipyard in ...
The Kawasaki-type oiler (川崎型油槽船,, Kawasaki-gata Yusōsen) was a type of oiler from Japan, serving during the 1930s and World War II. They do not have an official class name. [ 1 ] Therefore, this article uses common class names.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries is a member of HySTRA and, along with Iwatani, Shell, and Electric Power Development, plans to promote hydrogen as a fuel source. [ 5 ] The ship carries a double-shielded and double-insulated 1,250-cubic-meter tank to both hold and maintain hydrogen at a temperature of −253 °C. [ 4 ]
Class EF52 No. 3 was completed in May 1928 at Shibaura Engineering Works/Kisha Seizo Company and No. 4 was completed June 1928 at the same builder. Nos. 5-6 were completed in July 1928 at Mitsubishi Electric Company, No. 7 was completed in July 1928 at Kawasaki Shipyard Company, Nos. 8-9 were completed in June 1931 at same builder. [2]