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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

TORPEDO SHIPS

5-go torpedo boats (1892-1894)

8-go 1892

Names

5水雷艇 - 14水雷艇 [5-go - 14-go]

16水雷艇 - 19水雷艇 [16-go - 19-go]

Builders

Schneider-Creusot, Chalon-sur-Saône, France // Onohama K K: 5-go - 14-go, 16-go - 19-go

Commissioned

1892: 5-go - 10-go

1893: 14-go, 16-go

1894: 11-go - 13-go, 17-go - 19-go

Losses

16-go (11.5.1895)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1907: 5-go - 7-go

1908: 8-go, 9-go, 14-go

1910: 10-go - 13-go, 17-go - 19-go

 

Displacement normal, t

54

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.8 pp 35.0 oa

Breadth, m

3.36

Draught, m

0.92

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

525

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal 8

Endurance, nm(kts) 1030(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/30 21/2pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 - 350 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 350 TT

Complement

16

     

Project history: Ordered on 1885 Programme. Designed by E. Bertin on the basis of French torpedo boat No 75. Sets were produced in the France and assembled at Onohama.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

8-go

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