NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
天城 [Amagi]			Yokosuka K K	9.1875	3.1877	11.4.1878	gunboat 1898, stricken 6.1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	911
Displacement full, t	1030
Length, m	62.5 pp 65.3 wl
Breadth, m	10.1
Draught, m	4.37
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	720
Max speed, kts	11.5
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)	1 x 1 - 173/22 RKL/25 C/72, 4 x 1 - 120/22 RKL/25 C/78, 1 x 1 - 120/17 C/65 (Bronze), 3 x 1 - 79/25 RKL/27 C/73
Armament	159
Complement	301

Standard scale images

Project history

The wooden-hulled Amagi was a slightly larger and more heavily armed version of the Seiki, both vessels being built at the same yard. The Amagi mounted identical machinery to the Seiki but the hp was almost doubled from 443 to 720 to give art extra 2 kts. Like the Seiki the armament was supplied by Krupps.

Modernizations

1880s: + 3 x 4 - 25/60 Nordenfelt Mk I

Naval service

Amagi was reclassified as a gunboat in 1898 and sold for scrap just after the Russo-Japanese war.