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Chihaya

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
千早 [Chihaya]			Yokohama K K	5.1898	26.5.1900	9.1901	stricken 1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1238
Displacement full, t	1464
Length, m	83.2 pp 87.7 oa
Breadth, m	9.60
Draught, m	2.76
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	coal 344
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong T, 4 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 1 - 450 TT (1 bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	125

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Project history

1st class gunboat, classified earlier as unarmoured cruiser and dispatch vessel, built under Post-war program of 1896-1897.

Modernizations

1902 - 1903: - 1 - 450 TT

Naval service

In 1927 Chihaya became TS at Etajima, in 1939 she was converted to a hulk and handed over on demolition in August 1945.