Japanese corvette Yamato

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For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Yamato.
Yamato at Kobe in 1889-1890
History
Empire of Japan
NameYamato
Namesake
Yamato province
Ordered1882 Fiscal Year
BuilderOnohama Shipyards, Japan
Laid down23 November 1883
Launched1 May 1885
Commissioned16 November 1888
Stricken1 April 1935
Fate
  • Sunk in typhoon September 1945,
  • Raised and scrapped 1950
General characteristics
Class and typeKatsuragi-class corvette
Displacement1,476 long tons (1,500 t)
Length62.78 m (206 ft 0 in)
Beam10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)
Draft4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Propulsion
  • Horizontally-mounted reciprocating engine, 1,622 hp (1,210 kW)
  • 6 boilers, shaft
Sail planBarque-rigged sloop
Speed13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Range145 tons coal
Complement231
Armament
  • 2 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns
  • 5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
  • 1 × 80 mm (3.1 in) gun
  • 4 × quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns
  • 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Yamato (大和, Yamato) was the second vessel in the

Nara prefecture and the historic heartland of Japan. The name was used again for the World War II battleship Yamato
, commissioned in 1941.

Background

Yamato was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted

Fleet Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō
.

Operational history

Yamato saw combat service in the

Battle of Yalu River in a reserve capacity in the Western Sea Fleet
.

On 21 March 1898, Yamato was designated as a third-class gunboat,[2] and was used for coastal survey and patrol duties.

During the

Shimonoseki. On 28 August 1912, she was reclassified as a second class coastal patrol vessel, and was assigned to coastal survey duties. On 1 April 1922, she was officially re-designated as a survey vessel, and her armament was replaced by two 8-inch guns. During the course of its surveys, Yamato discovered a seamount in the Sea of Japan
, which was named after it.

On 1 April 1935, Yamato was retired from navy service and demilitarized. Her

juvenile offenders. It was towed to Yokohama harbor during World War II, but was swamped in a typhoon in September 1945 at the mouth of the Tsurumi River in Tokyo Bay
. Her hulk was raised and scrapped in 1950.

Notes

  1. ^ Chesneau, All the World’s Fighting Ships, p. 233.
  2. ^ Nishida, Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy

References

  • Chesneau, Roger and Eugene M. Kolesnik (editors), All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, Conway Maritime Press, 1979 reprinted 2002,
    ISBN 0-85177-133-5
  • Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Naval Institute Press.
    ISBN 0-87021-893-X
    .
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