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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

TORPEDO SHIPS

50-GO 3 class torpedo boats (1900-1902)

57-go 1902

Names

50水雷艇 - 58水雷艇 [50-go - 58-go]

Builders

Yokosuka K K: 50-go - 55-go

Kure K K: 56-go - 58-go

Commissioned

1900: 50-go, 51-go

1901: 52-go, 53-go

1902: 54-go - 58-go

Losses

51-go (28.6.1904), 53-go (14.12.1904)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1912: 50-go, 52-go

1915: 54-go - 58-go

 

Displacement normal, t

54

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

34.0

Breadth, m

3.51

Draught, m

0.99

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Normand boiler

Power, h. p.

660

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal 14

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 x 2 - 350 TT

Complement

16

     

Project history: Built under the 1896-7 Programme on Normand design. Similar to French No130.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: 51-go wrecked 28.6.1904 NW of San Shantao Island. 53-go was mined 14.12.1904 off Cape Liao Ti Chan (Port Arthur).

© Ivan Gogin, 2014