Japanese corvette Amagi
Amagi in 1897
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Amagi |
| Ordered: | 1875 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down: | 9 September 1875 |
| Launched: | 13 March 1877 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1878 |
| Struck: | 14 June 1905 |
| Fate: | Sold 24 November 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sloop |
| Displacement: | 926 long tons (941 t) |
| Length: | 62.17 m (204 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 10.89 m (35 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 4.63 m (15 ft 2 in) |
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| Sail plan: | bark-rigged sloop |
| Speed: | 11.5 knots (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 150 tons coal |
| Complement: | 159 |
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Amagi (天城?) was a screw sloop in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the third vessel built by the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal after its acquisition by the Meiji government. When built, Amagi was the largest warship yet produced domestically in Japan. Amagi was named after the Mount Amagi, in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Amagi was designed as a wooden-hulled three-masted bark-rigged sloop with a coal-fired triple expansion reciprocating steam engine driving a single screw. Made mostly of pine wood, the wooden beams and metal fittings came from the mountains of central Izu Peninsula, which also provided the ship with its name. She was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 9 September 1875 under the direction of Léonce Verny, a French naval engineer initially hired by the Tokugawa shogunate, who stayed on as a foreign advisor to the early Meiji government as chief administrator and constructor of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. She was launched on 13 March 1877 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy on 4 April 1878. Her design was a scaled-up version of the corvette Seiki, also built at the same shipyards.
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