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'''AbleNET''' is an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] network. It was founded, May 2001, by [[AfterNET]] Co-Founder and long-time Admin Anthony Sanchez and several others from that network. The network was set up primarily as a chat network for friends, and as a response to growing disillusionment with the policies of some of the [[AfterNET]] administrators. Several users from AbleNET were involved in the creation of [[AfterNET]]; some even tracing their usage back to [[TheNET]] and [[InnerNET]].

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|colspan="2"|[[Image:Sanjuanbautista.jpg|270px]] The Japanese-built 1613 [[galleon]] '''''San Juan Bautista''''', in [[Ishinomaki, Miyagi|Ishinomaki]], [[Japan]] (replica).

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|Builder:

|[[Sendai]] [[Daimyo]]

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|Laid down:

|[[1613]]

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|Launched:

|[[1613]]

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|Commissioned:

|September [[1613]]

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|Decommissioned:

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|Fate:

|Sold to Spain

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|Displacement:

|500 tons

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|Length:

|55.35 m (LOA)

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|Beam:

|11.25 m

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|Draught:

|3.80 m

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|Propulsion:

|3-masted sailboat

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|Complement:

|180

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|Armament:

|16 cannons

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'''''San Juan Bautista''''' (“St John Baptist”) (originally called ''Date Maru'', 伊達丸 in Japanese) was one of Japan's first Japanese-built Western-style sail warships. She crossed the Pacific in [[1614]]. She was of the Spanish [[Galleon]] type, known in Japan as Kuro-Fune (,黒船, lit. “Black ships”), or [[Nanban]]-Sen (南蛮船, lit. “Southern Barbarian ships”).

AbleNET is a small network with an average of 150-300 users online at any given time. The [[Undernet]]-compatible [[IRCu]] [[Daemon (computer software)|daemon]] software is used on the servers. [[IRC_Services|Channel services]] are provided using [[srvx]]; the user authentication service is named AuthServ and the channel service is named X.

She transported a Japanese embassy of 180 people headed by [[Hasekura Rokuemon]], and accompanied by the Spanish friar [[Luis Sotelo]], to the Spanish possessions of [[Mexico]]. The ultimate mission for the embassy was to go on to Europe, which she reached in [[1615]], before going back to Japan.

AbleNET is noted for its distinct lack of [[IRCOp]]s, instead using various services to control the flow of network stability and activity. Additionally, the Network is noted for its high standards of access, regarding the limit of multiple connections and unverifiable "bots".

==Construction==

''San Juan Bautista'' was built in 1613 by [[Date Masamune]], the [[Daimyo]] of [[Sendai]] in northern [[Japan]], in Tsuki-No-Ura harbour ([[Ishinomaki, Miyagi|Ishinomaki]], [[Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi]]). The project had been approved by the [[Bakufu]], the [[Shogun]]'s government in [[Edo]].

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The Shogun already had had two smaller ships (80 and 120 tons) built for him by the English pilot [[William Adams]], and the larger one, the [[Japanese warship San Buena Ventura|''San Buena Ventura'']], was given to Spanish shipwrecked sailors for their return to Mexico in 1610. The Shogun also issued numerous permits for [[Red seal ships]], destined to Asian trade and incorporating many elements of Western ship design.

== Historical Timeline ==

''San Juan Bautista'' is reported to have required 45 days work, with the participation of technical experts from the [[Bakufu]], 800 [[shipwright]]s, 700 [[Smith (metalwork)|smith]]s, and 3000 [[carpenter]]s. Two Spanish men are also reported to have participated to the endeavour: the friar [[Luis Sotelo]], and the Spanish captain [[Sebastian Vizcaino]].

* May 2001, AbleNET is born and has served as a meeting place for chatters ever since.

* May 2003, with the looming threat of the [http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail] Fizzer Worm] AbleNET joins with a vast collection of [[IRC]] networks and news communities to form [http://www.irc-unity.org/ IRC-Unity]<ref>http://www.irc-unity.org/</ref>.

* December 2005, AbleNET becomes the first IRC Network to offer "blogging" to their community.

== Founder ==

Anthony Sanchez has been using and administering IRC Networks since 1995, starting as an IRCop with InnerNET subsequently [[NewNET]] during it's founding year. Later he went on to Admin servers for [[TheNET]], [[AfterNET]] and finally AbleNET.

Anthony was, coincidentally, the first to publish the story of the raid on and subsequent shutdown of the popular [[Lineage II]] private server, L2Extreme, on the AbleNET website.<ref>http://anthony.blogs.ablenet.org/l2extreme_fbi_shutdown</ref>

== External links ==

These efforts were seen with disapproval by the Spanish government in [[Manila]], and Los Rios Coronel suggested that Luis Sotelo should not be allowed into Japan any further (C.R. Boxer).

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* [http://irc-unity.org/]

== References ==

==Two trans-pacific round-trips==

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[[Image:Hasekura_in_Rome.JPG|thumb|left|180px|Hasekura's portrait during his mission in Rome in [[1617]], by Claude Deruet, Coll. Borghese, Rome.]]

Upon completion, the ship left in 28 October [[1613]] for [[Acapulco]] in [[Mexico]], with around 180 people on board, consisting of 10 samurai of the Shogun (led by the Minister of the Navy Mukai Shooken), 12 samurai from Sendai, 120 Japanese merchants, sailors, and servants, and around 40 Spaniards and Portuguese. The ship arrived in Acapulco on 25 January 1614 after three months.

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After a year in Acapulco, the ship returned to Japan in April [[1615]], as Hasekura continued to Europe. It seems that around 50 specialists in mining and silver-refining were invited to Japan on this occasion, so that they could help develop the mining industry in the Sendai area.

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In September [[1616]], the ''San Juan Batista'' headed again to Acapulco, at the request of Luis Sotelo. She was sailed by Captain [[Yokozawa Shogen]], but the trip went wrong and around 100 sailors died en route. Sotelo and Hasekura met in Mexico for the final trip back to Japan. In April 1618 the ship arrived to the [[Philippines]], where she was sold to the Spanish government there, with the objective of building up defenses against the Dutch. Hasekura returned to Japan in 1620.

By the time Hasekura came back, Japan had changed quite drastically: Christianity was being eradicated since its interdiction in 1614, and Japan was moving towards a period of Seclusion. Because of these persecutions, the trade agreements with Mexico he had been trying to establish were also denied. In the end, his embassy seems to have had little results, and he died two years later of illness.

[[Image:San Juan Batista.jpg|thumb|left|610px|Hasekura's embassy to the [[Pope]] in [[Rome]] in [[1617]]. Japanese painting, [[17th century]].]]

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==San Juan Bautista today==

A new ''San Juan Bautista'' was reconstructed in 1993 on the basis of the records of the House of Date. Although the exact blueprints have not been found, the ship’s dimensions were recorded properly, permitting the reconstitution. The ship is currently on display in a theme park in northern Japan, close to the ___location where she was originally built.

==See also==

*[[List of ships of the Japanese Navy]]

*[[Red seal ships]]

*[[Ship replica]] (including a list of ship replicas)

==References==

*“The Christian century in Japan 1549-1650” C.R. Boxer ISBN 1857540352

*“Quand le Japon s’ouvrit au monde” Francis Marcouin and Keiko Omoto ISBN 207053118X

==External links==

*[http://hb2.seikyou.ne.jp/home/fm/ishi-sant.html Reconstitution of the San Juan Bautista]

*[http://ww51.et.tiki.ne.jp/~santjuan/gif/sokuzu.gif Ship plan]

*[http://ww51.et.tiki.ne.jp/~santjuan/bautista/b-name/b-in.gif Ship interior]

*[http://ww51.et.tiki.ne.jp/~santjuan/gif/canon.gif Ship guns]

*[http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A6%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF&hl=ja&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi Various views of the ship]

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