Japanese gunboat Chōkai
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Chōkai.
Chōkai (鳥海) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy.[1] 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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Japanese gunboat Chōkai at Sasebo, 1889 | |
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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) |
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Speed | 11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h) |
Range | 60 tons coal |
Complement | 104 |
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