Japanese gunboat Chōkai

	Japanese gunboat Chōkai at Sasebo, 1889
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Chōkai
Ordered	1883
Builder	Ishikawajima-Hirano Shipyards
Laid down	25 January 1886
Launched	20 August 1887
Commissioned	27 December 1888
Decommissioned	1 April 1908
Stricken	23 May 1911
Fate	Scrapped 1912
General characteristics
Class and type	Maya-class gunboat
Displacement	614 long tons (624 t)
Length	47.0 m (154.2 ft)
Beam	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draught	2.95 m (9 ft 8 in)
Propulsion	reciprocating steam engine; 2 shafts, 2 boilers; 950 hp (710 kW);
Speed	11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h)
Range	60 tons coal
Complement	104
Armament	1 × 210 mm (8 in) guns; 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Nordenfelt guns;
Service record
Operations:	Battle of Weihaiwei; Boxer Rebellion; Siege of Port Arthur;

Chōkai (鳥海) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the second vessel to be completed in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Chōkai in between Yamagata and Akita Prefectures.

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