Japanese gunboat Tsukushi
Japanese cruiser Tsukushi
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 Chile
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| Name: | Arturo Prat |
| Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth |
| Laid down: | 10 February 1879 |
| Launched: | 11 August 1880 |
| Fate: | Purchase cancelled, incomplete hull sold to Japan |
 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Tsukushi |
| Ordered: | 1883 Fiscal Year |
| Commissioned: | 18 June 1883 |
| Struck: | 26 May 1906 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1910 |
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| Class and type: | Tsukushi-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 1,350 long tons (1,370 t) |
| Length: | 64 m (210 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) |
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| Speed: | 16.5 knots (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) |
| Range: | 300 tons coal |
| Complement: | 186 |
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Tsukushi (筑紫) was an early unprotected cruiser, serving in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy. Its name is a traditional name for Kyūshū island. Its sister ships Chaoyong and Yangwei were acquired by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet.
The design for Tsukushi was advertised by its designer British naval architect Sir George Wightwick Rendel at the Armstrong Whitworth shipyards at Newcastle upon Tyne in England as an example of a low-cost cruiser able to withstand larger Ironclad warships. In theory, the ship would rely on its small size and higher speed, along with a higher muzzle velocity main battery to attack larger, more cumbersome foes – very similar to the principles of Jeune Ecole, as promoted by French naval architect Émile Bertin. However, the British Admiralty was very skeptical of the idea, and had concerns over the seaworthiness of the design in the North Sea, and did not order any of the design for the Royal Navy. Armstrong Whitworth turned to overseas clients instead; however, rapid technological advances in ship design and naval artillery (with the advent of large calibre quick-firing guns) rendered the design with its weak armor and small guns obsolete within a few years.
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