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OSHIMA gunboat (1892)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
大島 [Oshima]     Onohama, Kobe 8/1889 9/1891 3/1892 collision 17.5.1904


Technical data


Displacement normal, t640
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

53.7 pp

Breadth, m

8.00

Draught, m

2.75

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, tcoal 140
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mmsteel; deck: 30
Armament

4 x 1 - 120/32 Five Lille, 5 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 x 5 - 11.4/94

Complement

130



Standard scale images


<i>Oshima </i>1904
Oshima 1904


Project history

The Oshima was notable for being the first ship to be equipped with Japanese built VTE machinery. The steel-hulled vessel showed strong French influence in her design, with pronounced ram, and the guns being sited on the forecastle and poop and on sponsons amidships.

Modernizations

1890s: - 4 x 1 - 120/32; + 4 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong R

Naval service

Oshima was heavily damaged 16.5.1904 in collision with gunboat Akagi in the fog NE of Port Arthur and foundered next day.