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Sumida Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
墨田 [Sumida]		349	Thornycroft, Chiswick, UK	1896	26.6.1903	4.1906	stricken 1935

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	126
Displacement full, t
Length, m	44.2 pp
Breadth, m	7.19
Draught, m	0.58
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 VTE, Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	550
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 40
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 1 - 6.5/115
Complement	40

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Project history

Specially intended for service on China rivers, built under the 1896-1897 programme. Sumida has been built in Britain and assembled in Japan from ready sections in 10.1903-4/1906.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Based at Shanghai and served till 1935, then had been handed over on demolition.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.