Miyako (ship)
Miyako in 1902
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Miyako |
| Ordered: | 1893 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down: | 26 May 1894 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1898 |
| Completed: | 31 March 1899 |
| Struck: | 21 May 1905 |
| Fate: | Sunk by mine 14 May 1904 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 1,772 long tons (1,800 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft (95.7 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10.4 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 6,130 ihp (4,570 kW), 8 locomotive boilers, 400 tons coal |
| Speed: | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 200 |
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Miyako (宮古) was an unprotected cruiser of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Miyako comes from the Miyako Islands, one of the three island groups making up current Okinawa prefecture. Miyako was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat) for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of high priority messages.
Miyako was designed under the supervision of French naval architect Émile Bertin, and built in Japan by the Kure Naval Arsenal. With a small displacement, powerful engines, and a 20-knot (37 km/h) speed, the lightly armed and lightly armored Miyako was an example of the Jeune Ecole philosophy of naval warfare advocated by Bertin. Due to her small size the ship is sometimes classified as a corvette or gunboat.
Similar in design to Yaeyama and the French unprotected cruiser Milan (1885), Miyako was the first warship produced by the new Kure Naval Arsenal. She had a steel hull, and retained a full barque rigging with two masts for auxiliary sail propulsion in addition to her steam engine. Miyako was armed with two QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IVs guns and eight QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss guns. In addition, she carried two torpedoes, mounted on the deck.
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