Japanese corvette Amagi
 Amagi in 1897
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| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Amagi |
| Ordered | 1875 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down | 9 September 1875 |
| Launched | 13 March 1877 |
| Commissioned | 4 April 1878 |
| Stricken | 14 June 1905 |
| Fate | Sold 24 November 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop |
| Displacement | 926 long tons (941 t) |
| Length | 62.17 m (204 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 10.89 m (35 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 4.63 m (15 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | bark-rigged sloop |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h) |
| Range | 150 tons coal |
| Complement | 159 |
| Armament |
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Amagi (天城, Heavenly Castle) was a
Meiji government. When built, Amagi was the largest warship yet produced domestically in Japan. Amagi was named after the Mount Amagi, in Shizuoka Prefecture
, Japan.
Background
Amagi was designed as a wooden-hulled three-masted
launched on 13 March 1877 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy on 4 April 1878.[1] Her design was a scaled-up version of the corvette Seiki
, also built at the same shipyards.
Operational history
With heightened tensions with
Joseon dynasty Korea after the assassination of several members of the Japanese embassy in the Imo Incident, Amagi was assigned to patrols off the Korean coast as a show of force in the summer of 1882, with Lieutenant Tōgō Heihachirō as executive officer
.
Tōgō later was captain of Amagi in 1884, when it became the first Japanese warship to ascend the
treaty port at Wuhan. He also observed French naval operations off of Taiwan during the Sino-French War
of 1884-1885.
Amagi saw combat service in the
navy list on 14 June 1905.[2]
On 24 November 1908, the demilitarized hulk was sold to the Toba Shosen Gakkō, the predecessor of the Toba National College of Maritime Technology, where she was used as a training vessel. Her eventual fate is unknown.
Notes
References
- Chesneau, Roger and Eugene M. Kolesnik (editors), All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, Conway Maritime Press, 1979 reprinted 2002, ISBN 0851771335
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 087021893X.
- Lengerer, Hans (September 2020). "The 1882 Coup d'État in Korea and the Second Expansion of the Imperial Japanese Navy: A Contribution to the Pre-History of the Chinese-Japanese War 1894–95". Warship International. LVII (3): 185–196. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Lengerer, Hans (December 2020). "The 1884 Coup d'État in Korea — Revision and Acceleration of the Expansion of the IJN: A Contribution to the Pre-History of the Chinese-Japanese War 1894–95". Warship International. LVII (4): 289–302. ISSN 0043-0374.
Major Japanese naval combatants of the First Sino-Japanese War  | |
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| Protected cruisers | |
| Armored corvettes | |
| Ironclad warship | |
| Gunboats | |