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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

TORPEDO SHIPS

1-go torpedo boats (1880)

1-go 1885

Names

1水雷艇 - 4水雷艇 [1-go - 4-go]

Builders

Yarrow, Poplar, UK: 1-go - 4-go

Commissioned

1880: 1-go - 4-go

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding 1909-1910: 1-go - 4-go

 

Displacement normal, t

40

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

29.4 pp 30.5 wl

Breadth, m

3.68

Draught, m

0.99

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

620

Max speed, kts

22

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 1pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 - 350 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 350 TT

Complement

 

     

Project history: Designed by Sir Edward Reed on the basis of RN 100ft class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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Many thanks to Alexandr Isaenko for information provided

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