Japanese gunboat Un'yō
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Un'yō.
Un'yō (雲揚, Rising Cloud) was an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled sail-and-steam gunboat of the early Meiji period, serving with the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy. She was a two-masted brig with an auxiliary coal-fired steam engine driving a single screw.
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Japanese warship Un'yō | |
History | |
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Name | Un'yō |
Builder | A. Hall & Co., Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Launched | 1868 |
Acquired | February 1870 (by Chōshū Domain) |
Commissioned | July 4, 1870 |
Decommissioned | October 31, 1876 |
Fate | Scrapped and sold, May 14, 1877 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 245 long tons (249 t) |
Length |
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Beam | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | 1-shaft Coal-fired steam engine, 60 ihp (45 kW) |
Sail plan | 2-masted brig |
Speed | 10 knots |
Complement | 65 |
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