Japanese corvette Musashi

Musashi circa 1897
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Musashi
Ordered:	1883 Fiscal Year
Builder:	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan
Laid down:	1 October 1884
Launched:	30 March 1886
Commissioned:	9 February 1887
Struck:	1 April 1928
Fate:	Scrapped 1935
General characteristics
Class and type:	Katsuragi-class corvette
Displacement:	1,476 long tons (1,500 t)
Length:	62.78 m (206 ft 0 in)
Beam:	10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)
Draft:	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Installed power:	1,622 ihp (1,210 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × horizontally mounted reciprocating steam engine 6 boilers, 2 × screws
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged sloop
Speed:	13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Capacity:	132 t (146 short tons) coal
Complement:	231
Armament:	2 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns 5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns 1 × 80 mm (3.1 in) Krupp QF gun 4 × quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Musashi (武蔵^?) was the third and final vessel in the Katsuragi class of composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Musashi province, a former province of Japan located in the Kantō region. The name was used again for the more famous World War II battleship Musashi.

Katsuragi was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted barque-rigged sloop-of-war with a coal-fired double-expansion reciprocating steam engine with six cylindrical boilers driving a double screw. Her basic design was based on experience gained in building Kaimon and Tenryū sloops, but was already somewhat obsolescent in comparison to contemporary European warships when completed.

Musashi was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 1 October 1884 under the direction of British-educated Japanese naval architect Sasō Sachū. She was launched on 30 March 1886 and commissioned on 9 February 1887. He first captain was Lieutenant Commander Arima Shin'ichi.

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