Japanese corvette Musashi

	Musashi circa 1897
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Musashi
Ordered	1883 Fiscal Year
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan
Laid down	1 October 1884
Launched	30 March 1886
Commissioned	9 February 1887
Stricken	1 April 1928
Fate	Scrapped 1935
General characteristics
Class and type	Katsuragi-class corvette
Displacement	1,476 long tons (1,500 t)
Length	62.78 m (206 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)
Draft	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Installed power	1,622 ihp (1,210 kW)
Propulsion	1 × horizontally mounted reciprocating steam engine; 6 boilers, 2 × screws;
Sail plan	Barque-rigged sloop
Speed	13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Capacity	132 t (146 short tons) coal
Complement	231
Armament	2 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns; 5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns; 1 × 80 mm (3.1 in) Krupp QF gun; 4 × quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns; 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes;

Musashi (武蔵) was the third and final vessel in the Katsuragi class of composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Musashi province, a former province of Japan located in the Kantō region. The name was used again for the more famous World War II battleship Musashi.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.