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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
筑波 [Tsukuba] (ex-Malacca)			Mould, Moulmein, Burma	1851	9.4.1853	1854 // 1870	training hulk 1900

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1978bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	58.6 wl 60.3 oa
Breadth, m	10.6
Draught, m	5.48
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HSE, 2 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	707
Max speed, kts	9.5
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 121/21 20pdr 16cwt BL, 2 x 1 - 152/17 24pdr SBML
Complement	301

Standard scale images

Project history

This wooden, screw corvette was the en-British Malacca acquired in 1870.

Modernizations

1892: new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 152/40 Armstrong W

Naval service

Tsukuba served as TS, since 1900 as non-self-propelled. She was stricken in 1906 and BU.