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SOKO gunboat (1879 / 1894)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
操江 [Soko] (ex-操江 [Ts'ao Chiang])     Kiangyan, Shanghai, China 2/1869 5/1869 7/1869 // 9.1894 wrecked 21.3.1903


Technical data


Displacement normal, t950
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

47.8 pp 54.9 oa

Breadth, m

8.61

Draught, m

3.25

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

425

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

4 x 1 - 163/14 Armstrong 70pdr 69cwt

Complement

79



Standard scale images


<i>Soko </i>1897
Soko 1897


Project history

Composite-hulled gunboat, built for Nanyang fleet. Captured by cruiser Akitsushima off west coast of Korea 25.7.1894 (without a fight), renamed Soko and commissioned by IJN 12.9.1894 as armed steamship.

Modernizations

1898: - 4 x 1 - 163/14; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N

Naval service

In 1898 reclassified as gunboat, used also as survey vessel. 21.3.1903 Soko stranded in Nemuro Bay, stricken in October 1903 but was later used as receiving vessel. Since 1924 she was used commercially as Sako Maru since 1965. She is preserved in Japan today on some data.