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MAYA gunboats (1887 - 1890)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
摩耶 [Maya]     Onohama, Kobe 6/1885 18.8.1886 1/1888 fishery protection 5.1908, stricken 12.1911
鳥海 [Chokai]     Ishikawajima, Tokyo 12/1885 20.9.1887 10/1888 fishery protection 1908, sold 1914
愛宕 [Atago]     Yokosuka K K 7/1886 6/1887 3/1889 wrecked 6.11.1904
赤城 [Akagi]     Onohama, Kobe 7/1886 7.8.1888 8/1890 stricken 4.1911


Technical data


Displacement normal, t622
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

46.8 pp

Breadth, m

8.20

Draught, m

3.11

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 2-cyl HCDA, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

963

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, tcoal 68 - 74
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

Maya: 2 x 1 - 149/22 RKL/25 C/74, 2 x 1 - 57/43 Nordenfelt Mk I, 2 x 4 - 25/60 Nordenfelt Mk I

Chokai, Atago, Akagi: 1 x 1 - 209/19 RKL/22 C/72, 1 x 1 - 120/22 RKL/25 C/78, 2 x 4 - 25/60 Nordenfelt Mk I

Akagi: 4 x 1 - 120/32 Five Lille, 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 4 - 25/60 Nordenfelt Mk I

Complement

104



Standard scale images


<i>Akagi </i>1904
Akagi 1904


Project history

These four schooner-rigged vessels were ordered under the 1882 Programme, the first two having iron hulls, the third a combination of iron and steel and the fourth an all steel hull. The Akagi was distinguished from the other ships by having a raised forecastle.

Modernizations

1894, Akagi: - 4 x 1 - 120/32; + 4 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong R, 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I;

late 1890s, Maya: was rearmed with 4 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong R, 2 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Naval service

Atago wrecked 6.11.1904 SW of Port Arthur after running to a cliff in a fog.