Japanese corvette Tenryū
| Japanese armed sloop Tenryū | |
| Career | Japanese Navy Ensign |
|---|---|
| Name: | Tenryū |
| Ordered: | 1877 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down: | 9 February 1878 |
| Launched: | 18 August 1883 |
| Commissioned: | 5 March 1885 |
| Struck: | 21 December 1911 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,547 long tons (1,572 t) |
| Length: | 67.4 m (221 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
| Draft: | 5 m (16 ft 5 in) |
| Propulsion: |
Horizontally-mounted reciprocating engine, 1,260 hp (940 kW) 4 boilers 1 shaft |
| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged sloop |
| Speed: | 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Range: | 256 tons coal |
| Complement: | 210 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading gun • 1 × 150 mm (5.9 in) Krupp breech-loading gun • 4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns • 1 × 75 mm (3 in) gun • 4 × 25 mm (0.98 in) quadruple Nordenfelt guns |
IJN Tenryū (天龍 (スループ) Tenryū suru-pu) was a wooden armed sloop in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Tenryū was named after the Tenryū River in Shizuoka and Nagano Prefectures.
History
Although described by the rather ambiguous terms "gunboat" or "corvette", Tenryū was designed as a three-masted bark-rigged sloop. It was based on the design of the Kaimon, except slightly larger in displacement and with slightly heavier weaponry. As with the Kaimon, construction took much longer than initially anticipated, and it required over seven years to complete. However, even after launching, numerous issues needed to be addressed, including a problem with stability that required the addition of bulges to the hull.
Tenryū saw combat service in the First Sino-Japanese War, at the Battle of Lushunkou and subsequently at the Battle of Yalu River (1894). After the war, Tenryū was designated a second-class gunboat, and was used for coastal patrol duties. It caught fire on November 1897, and required extensive repairs.
During the Russo-Japanese War, Tenryū was based as a guard ship at Kobe port. After the war, it was transferred to Maizuru, where it served as a training vessel. Tenryū was retired on 21 December 1911, and scrapped in 1912.
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/stc0614.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
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