- Japanese warship Chōyō
nihongo|"Chōyō"|朝陽 was a warship of the Imperial Navy during the
Boshin War . She participated to theNaval Battle of Hakodate in1869 , where she was sunk on May 11th by the rebel warship "Banryū". She suffered a huge explosion after being hit, in which 73 sailors died, although her captain Nakamuta Kuranosuke survived.She was built in the
Netherlands , where she had been named "Edo". She had been presented to theNagasaki Naval Training Center by the Dutch in May 1858.
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