Japanese corvette Yamato

Yamato at Kobe in 1889-1890
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Yamato
Namesake:	Yamato province
Ordered:	1882 Fiscal Year
Builder:	Onohama Shipyards, Japan
Laid down:	23 November 1883
Launched:	1 May 1885
Commissioned:	16 November 1888
Struck:	1 April 1935
Fate:	Sunk in typhoon September 1945, Raised and scrapped 1950
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)
Propulsion:	Horizontally-mounted reciprocating engine, 1,622 hp (1,210 kW) 6 boilers, shaft
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged sloop
Speed:	13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Range:	145 tons coal
Complement:	231
Armament:	2 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns 5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 1 × 80 mm (3.1 in) gun 4 × quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Yamato (大和, Yamato^?) was the second vessel in the Katsuragi class of three composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Yamato province, the old name for Nara prefecture and the historic heartland of Japan. The name was used again for the World War II battleship Yamato, commissioned in 1941.

Yamato was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted bark-rigged sloop-of-war with a coal-fired double-expansion reciprocating steam engine with six cylindrical boilers driving a single screw. Her basic design was based on experience gained in building the Kaimon and Tenryū sloops, but was already somewhat obsolescent in comparison to contemporary European warships when completed. However, unlike her sister ships Katsuragi and Musashi, which were built by the government-owned Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. Yamato was built by the Onohama Shipyards, in Kobe. Her first captain was future Fleet Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.