Japanese cruiser Chihaya

	Chihaya in 1906 at Maizuru
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Chihaya
Ordered	1896 Fiscal Year
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down	7 May 1898
Launched	26 May 1900
Completed	9 September 1901
Stricken	1 September 1929
Fate	Scrapped 25 July 1939
General characteristics
Type	Unprotected cruiser
Displacement	1,238 long tons (1,258 t)
Length	83.19 m (272.9 ft)
Beam	9.63 m (31.6 ft)
Draft	3.35 m (11.0 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW), 6 boilers, 344 tons coal
Speed	21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Complement	125
Armament	2 × QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IVs; 4 × QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss guns; 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes;

Chihaya (千早) was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Chihaya comes from Chihaya Castle, near Osaka, the site of one of the battles of the Genkō War of 1333.

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