Three Japanese warships have borne the name Tenryū: Japanese corvette Tenryū, a steam corvette of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched in 1883 and scrapped in 1912 Japanese cruiser Tenryū, a Tenryū-class cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched in 1918 and sunk in 1942. JS Tenryū, a training support vessel of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force launched in 1999[1] References [1]Nishida, Hiroshi (2005). "JMSDF Vessels - Tenryu Training support ship". Materials of IJN. Retrieved 1 May 2019. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.