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KAIMON screw corvettes (1884 - 1885)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
海門 [Kaimon]     Yokosuka K K 1.9.1877 28.8.1882 13.3.1884 lost 5.7.1904
天龍 [Tenryu]     Yokosuka K K 9.2.1878 18.8.1883 5.3.1885 stricken 12.1911


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Kaimon: 1358

Tenryu: 1525

Displacement full, t

Kaimon: 1429

Length, m

Kaimon: 64.1 pp

Tenryu: 64.7 pp

Breadth, m

Kaimon: 9.91

Tenryu: 10.8

Draught, m

Kaimon: 4.98

Tenryu: 5.20

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HCRA, 4 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1267

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

Kaimon: coal 197

Tenryu: coal 204

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

Kaimon: 1 x 1 - 173/22 RKL/25 C/72, 6 x 1 - 120/22 RKL/25 C/78, 1 x 1 - 79/25 RKL/27 C/73, 4 x 4 - 25/60 Nordenfelt Mk I, 1 x 4 - 11.4/94

Tenryu: 1 x 1 - 173/22 RKL/25 C/72, 1 x 1 - 149/22 RKL/25 C/74, 4 x 1 - 120/22 RKL/25 C/78, 1 x 1 - 79/25 RKL/27 C/73, 4 x 4 - 25/60 Nordenfelt Mk I

Complement

Kaimon: 210

Tenryu: 214



Standard scale images


<i>Tenryu</i> 1885
Tenryu 1885


Project history

These barque-rigged corvettes were the most effective of the smaller types of warship in service in the Japanese Navy towards the end of the 19th century. They were built under French supervision and completed with Krupp armament. Both vessels were refined, a new bow replacing the original graceful knee stem, and military masts replacing the fore and main masts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

The ships carried out a number of operations during the Russo-Japanese war, the Kaimon being lost off Talieo Wan Bay 5 July 1904 when she struck a mine laid by Russian minelayer Yenisey. Tenryu survived the war and was finally removed from active service in 1906.