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YAEYAMA steel unarmoured cruiser (1892)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
八重山 [Yaeyama]     Yokosuka K K 6.1887 3.1889 3.1892 stricken 1906


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1584

Displacement full, t1609
Length, m

96.9 pp

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

4.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 HTE, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

5400

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal 350

Endurance, nm(kts)5000(10)
Armour, mmdeck: 13
Armament

3 x 1 - 120/32 SKL/35 C/86, 10 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 - 350 TT

Complement

215



Standard scale images


<i>Yaeyama </i>1892
Yaeyama 1892


Project history

Yaeyama was built to a design prepared by the French engineer M Bertin. The machinery was imported from Britain and was TE instead of the compound-type previously installed in Japanese warships.

Modernizations

1902: reboilered with 8 Niclausse boilers, extra funnel was added.

Naval service

Yaeyama stranded 11.5.1902 near Nemoro, towed off 1.9.1902, repaired and reboilered. She was stricken in 1906 but later used for experiments with oil-fired boilers, BU in 1911.