Japanese corvette Amagi
| Japanese armed sloop Amagi | |
| Career | Japanese Navy Ensign |
|---|---|
| Name: | Amagi |
| Ordered: | 1875 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down: | 9 September 1875 |
| Launched: | 13 March 1877 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1878 |
| Struck: | 14 June 1905 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 24 November 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 926 long tons (941 t) |
| Length: | 62.17 m (204 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 10.89 m (35 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 4.63 m (15 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: |
3-train horizontally-mounted reciprocating engine, 720 hp (540 kW) 2 boilers 1 shaft |
| Sail plan: | bark-rigged sloop |
| Speed: | 11.5 knots (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 150 tons coal |
| Complement: | 159 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading gun • 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) gun • 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) mortar • 3 × 12-pounder breech-loading guns • 3 × 80 mm (3.1 in) Nordenfelt guns |
IJN Amagi (天城 (スループ) Amagi suru-pu) was a wooden armed sloop in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the third vessel built by the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal after its acquisition by the Meiji government. When built, Amagi was the largest warship yet produced domestically in Japan. Amagi was named after the Mount Amagi, in Shizuoka Prefecture.
History
Although often described by the rather ambiguous terms "gunboat" or "corvette", Amagi was designed as a three-masted bark-rigged sloop. Made mostly of pine wood, the wooden beams and metal fittings came from the mountains of central Izu Peninsula, which also provided the ship with its name.
With heightened tensions with Korea after the assassination of several members of the Japanese embassy, Amagi was assigned to patrols of the Korean coast in the summer of 1882.
Amagi saw combat service in the First Sino-Japanese War, at the Battle of Lushunkou, Battle of Weihaiwei and the Battle of Yalu River (1894). After the war, Amagi was designated a second-class gunboat, and was used for coastal patrol duties. At that time, it underwent refit in Kobe.
During the Russo-Japanese War, Amagi was based as a guard ship at Yokohama port, however, before the end of the war it was declared obsolete and was struck from the Navy list on 14 June 1905. It was scrapped in 1908.
References
- Chesneau, Roger and Eugene M. Kolesnik (editors), All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, Conway Maritime Press, 1979 reprinted 2002, ISBN 0-85177-133-5
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press (1976). ISBN 087021893X
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN". Imperial Japanese Navy. http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/stc0612.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-03.
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