Japanese corvette Seiki

	Seiki in 1878
History
Name	Seiki
Ordered	1873 Fiscal Year
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan
Laid down	20 June 1873
Launched	5 May 1875
Commissioned	21 June 1876
Stricken	7 December 1888
Fate	Sank 10 December 1888
General characteristics
Displacement	897 long tons (911 t)
Length	62.17 m (204 ft 0 in)
Beam	9.14 m (30 ft 0 in)
Draft	3.96 m (13 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	horizontally mounted reciprocating steam engine; , 443 hp (330 kW); 2 boilers, 1 shaft;
Sail plan	bark-rigged sloop
Speed	9.5 knots (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h)
Complement	167
Armament	1 × 150 mm (5.9 in) Krupp breech-loading gun; 1 × Krupp 120 mm (4.7 in) breech-loading gun; 1 × Armstrong 6-pdr gun; 1 × 80 mm (3.1 in) triple Nordenfelt gun;

Seiki (清輝, Pure Brightness) was a screw sloop in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the first vessel built by the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal after its acquisition by the Meiji government. It was one of the first domestically-produced warships in Japan.

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