Japanese corvette Tenryū
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Tenryū (天龍, Heavenly Dragon)[1] was a sail-and-steam corvette of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Tenryū was named after the Tenryū River in Shizuoka and Nagano Prefectures.
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Japanese armed sloop Tenryū | |
History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Tenryū |
Ordered | 1877 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
Laid down | 9 February 1878 |
Launched | 18 August 1883 |
Commissioned | 5 March 1885 |
Stricken | 21 December 1911 |
Fate | Scrapped 1912 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steam corvette |
Displacement | 1,547 long tons (1,572 t) |
Length | 67.4 m (221 ft 2 in) |
Beam | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
Draft | 5 m (16 ft 5 in) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Barque-rigged sloop |
Speed | 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Range | 256 tons coal |
Complement | 210 |
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