Kongō-class ironclad

	Kongō at anchor
Class overview
Operators	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Fusō
Succeeded by	Chiyoda
Built	1875–1877
In commission	1877–1911
Planned	2
Completed	2
Scrapped	2
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Armored corvette
Displacement	2,248 long tons (2,284 t)
Length	220 ft (67.1 m)
Beam	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draft	19 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power	2,450 ihp (1,830 kW); 6 cylindrical boilers;
Propulsion	1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine
Sail plan	Barque rigged
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	3,100 nmi (5,700 km; 3,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	234
Armament	3 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp guns; 6 × 150 mm (5.9 in) Krupp guns; 2 × short 75 mm (3.0 in) guns;
Armor	Belt: 3–4.5 in (76–114 mm)

The Kongō-class ironclads (金剛型) were a pair of armored corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by British shipyards in the 1870s. A British offer to purchase the two ships during the Russo-Turkish War in 1878 was refused. They became training ships in 1887 and made training cruises to the Mediterranean and to countries on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The ships returned to active duty during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 where one participated in the Battle of the Yalu River and both in the Battle of Weihaiwei. The Kongō-class ships resumed their training duties after the war, although they played a minor role in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. They were reclassified as survey ships in 1906 and were sold for scrap in 1910 and 1912.

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