NAVYPEDIA

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, t	1609
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, mm	deck: 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

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.