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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

TORPEDO SHIPS

MAKIKUMO torpedo gunboats (1893 / 1906)

Shikinami 1906

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
巻雲 [Makigumo] (ex-Всадник [Vsadnik])     Crichton, Abo, Russia 1892 1893 1894 // 1906 stricken 1913
敷波 [Shikinami] (ex-Гайдамак [Gaydamak])     Crichton, Abo, Russia 1892 1893 1894 // 1906 stricken 1913

 

Displacement normal, t

400

Displacement full, t

432

Length, m

60.2

Breadth, m

7.42

Draught, m

3.25 - 3.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 Miyabara boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

22

Fuel, t

coal 90

Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(10)

Armament

6 x 1 - 47/43 Hotchkiss, 3 x 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss, 1 - 381 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 381 TT

Complement

64

Project history: Russian torpedo gunboats (torpedo cruisers by Russian classification), former was sunk on shallow water at Port Arthur by Japanese siege artillery, latter was scuttled by own crew there. Both were salvaged by Japanese, repaired and commissioned by IJN next year.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014