- Japanese cruiser Miyako
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For other ships of the same name, see Japanese ship Miyako.
Career (Imperial Japanese Navy) 
Name: Miyako Ordered: 1892 Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan Laid down: March 1894 Launched: October 1898 Completed: March 1899 Fate: Sunk by mine on May 14, 1904 General characteristics Type: unprotected cruiser Displacement: 1772 t Length: 314 ft (95.7 m) Beam: 34 ft (10.4 m) Draft: 14 ft (4.3 m) Propulsion: 2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 6,130 ihp (4,570 kW), 8 locomotive boilers, 400 tons coal Speed: 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) Complement: 200 Armament: • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in) QF guns
• 8 × 3-pdr. quick-firing guns
• 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubesMiyako was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The Miyako was long but lightweight, a fast aviso-type ship similar to the Yaeyama by French designer Bertin, and both ships resembled the French unprotected cruiser Milan completed in 1885. The Miyako was the first warship built at Kure Naval Arsenal, and was not completed in time for the First Sino-Japanese War. Her career during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was short, as the Miyako struck a mine off Port Arthur on 14 May 1904.[1]
References
- ^ Conways, p. 234
Bibliography
- Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860—1905. New York: Mayflower Books. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
Categories:- Cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Ships built in Japan
- Unique cruisers
- Victorian era naval ships of Japan
- Russo-Japanese War naval ships of Japan
- Maritime incidents in 1904
- Ships sunk by mines
- Shipwrecks in the East China Sea
- 1898 ships
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