Katsuragi-class corvette
Katsuragi in 1897
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Class overview | |
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Name | Katsuragi class |
Operators | Imperial Japanese Navy |
Built | 1883–1888 |
In commission | 1887–1935 |
Completed | 3 |
Lost | 0 |
Scrapped | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steam corvette |
Displacement | 1,500 t (1,476 long tons) |
Length | 62.78 m (206 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 10.7 m (35 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) |
Installed power | 1,622 ihp (1,210 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Barque-rigged sloop (3 × masts) |
Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Capacity | 132 t (146 short tons) coal |
Complement | 231 |
Armament |
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The Katsuragi class (葛城型スループ, Katsuragi-gata suru-pu) was a three-ship class of composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy.[1]
Design and description
The Katsuragi vessels were designed as iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted
Propulsion was by a coal-fired double-expansion reciprocating
The Katsuragi-class ships were armed with two Krupp 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns, five 120 mm (4.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns, one 80 mm (3.1 in) Krupp QF gun, four quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns and 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes. A major improvement over previous Japanese corvette designs was the use of recessed gun ports, which allowed the two forward guns to fire on a forward arc instead of only on a broadside.[2]
The design for the Katsuragi-class ships was by British-educated Japanese
In 1907, the armament was changed again, this time to four 3-inch and two 2.5-inch guns, and the ships were reclassified as
Ships
Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
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Katsuragi | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan | 18 August 1883 [3] | 31 March 1885[3] | 4 November 1887[3] | Broken up, 4 November 1913 |
Yamato | Onohama Shipyards, Kobe | 23 November 1883[3] | 1 May 1885[3] | 16 November 1887[3] | decommissioned 1 April 1935 sank in typhoon 18 September 1945 |
Musashi | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan | 1 October 1884 [3] | 30 March 1886[3] | 9 February 1888[3] | Decommissioned 1 April 1928 Broken up, 4 November 1913 |
Notes
References
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Evans, David; Peattie, Mark R. (1997). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
- Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN". Imperial Japanese Navy. Retrieved 14 February 2020.