Japanese gunboat Maya
Maya (摩耶) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the lead vessel in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Maya in Kobe.
Japanese gunboat Maya off Kure in 1892 | |
History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Maya |
Ordered | 1883 |
Builder | Onohama Shipyards |
Laid down | 1 June 1885 |
Launched | 18 August 1886 |
Commissioned | 10 January 1888 |
Decommissioned | 16 May 1908 |
Stricken | 1 December 1911 |
Fate | Scrapped 1932 |
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 |
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Speed | 11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h) |
Range | 60 tons coal |
Complement | 104 |
Armament |
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Service record | |
Operations: | Siege of Port Arthur |
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