Japanese cruiser Miyako
 Miyako in 1902
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| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Miyako |
| Ordered | 1893 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down | 26 May 1894 |
| Launched | 27 October 1898 |
| Completed | 31 March 1899 |
| Stricken | 21 May 1905 |
| Fate | Sunk by mine 14 May 1904 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement | 1,772 long tons (1,800 t) |
| Length | 314 ft (95.7 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10.4 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 6,130 ihp (4,570 kW), 8 locomotive boilers, 400 tons coal |
| Speed | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Complement | 200 |
| Armament |
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Miyako (宮古) was an
Okinawa prefecture. Miyako was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat
) for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of high priority messages.
Background
Miyako was designed under the supervision of
Jeune Ecole philosophy of naval warfare advocated by Bertin. Due to her small size the ship is sometimes classified as a corvette or gunboat
.
Design
Similar in design to
QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss guns. In addition, she carried two torpedoes, mounted on the deck.[2]
Service record
Miyako was
launched 27 October 1898 and completed on 31 March 1899.[3] The ship was not completed in time for the First Sino-Japanese War. From June 1900 to October 1902, she was under the command of Commander Yashiro Rokurō
.
During the
navy list
on 21 May 1905. Her wreckage was raised and sold for scrap on 4 July 1906.
Notes
- ISBN 0-87021-893-X. pages 94-95
- ^ Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, p. 234.
- ^ Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN". Imperial Japanese Navy.
- ^ Conways, p. 234
References
- Chesneau, Roger (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Roberts, John (ed). (1983). 'Warships of the world from 1860 to 1905 - Volume 2: United States, Japan and Russia. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz. ISBN 3-7637-5403-2.
- Roksund, Arne (2007). The Jeune École: The Strategy of the Weak. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15723-1.
- Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4977-9.
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN". Imperial Japanese Navy.
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