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K\KUYA Kawai Fishing. 



MoKUicHi Shimoda Fishinir. 



SnozABURO Okada, Kogakushi Shipbuilding. 



The Institute's three vessels are named ''^Unyo " ^^HayabusaJ' 

 and '■^Hokusui Maru.^'' 



The " Hayabusa " is a ketch measuring twenty-eight tons, 

 fitted with an auxiliary gasolene motor. 



The *' Unyo " specially constructed at tlie Osaka Iron works 

 as a training vessel, and fitted with all appliances for investigating 

 and experimenting in all waters, is a steel barque equipped 

 with an auxiliary steam engine (350 H. P.). She measures: — 

 Length, 135 fc; Beam, 28 ft.; Depth, 16 ft.; Draft, 12 ft.; Gross 

 Tonnage ; 448 Tons. 



The " Hokusni Mam " is a sailing vessel ; Gross Tonnage 

 140 Tons. 



It is not too much to say that she is the embodiment of 

 modern inventions and improvements in shipbuilding so far as a 

 vessel of her sort is concerned. She possesses, among other 

 advantages, a teacher's room, instrument store, library, laboratory, 

 students' quarters, meeting hall, and a cold storage room. 



The Institute had its origin in March, 1897; when the pioneer 

 fisheries school in this country was started under the name of 

 the Suisan Denshujo by the Japan Fisheries Society, with a fijnd 

 specially collected for the ^* Improvement and Propagation of 

 knowledge relating to Fisheries.'' 



Thanks to the strenuous efforts of the Society, the upbuilding 

 of the school was pushed in every department until it was 

 transferred to Government control in the same year. 



Previous to this transfer, the Government' seeing the necessity 

 of establishing an institution .similar to that already existing under 



