Japanese cruiser Tatsuta (1894)
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese cruiser Tatsuta.
Tatsuta (龍田) was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Tatsuta comes from the Tatsuta River, near Nara. Tatsuta was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat) used for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of priority messages.
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Tatsuta, photo by Armstrong Whitworth | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Tatsuta |
Ordered | 1891 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Armstrong Whitworth, UK |
Laid down | 7 April 1893 |
Launched | 6 April 1894 |
Completed | 31 July 1894 |
Decommissioned | 1 April 1916 |
Reclassified | 9 December 1916 |
Stricken | 26 March 1926 |
Fate | Scrapped 6 April 1926 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | none |
Type | Unprotected cruiser |
Displacement | 650 long tons (660 t) |
Length | 77.1 m (253.0 ft) |
Beam | 8.38 m (27.5 ft) |
Draft | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
Propulsion | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 5,069 ihp (3,780 kW), 200 tons coal |
Speed | 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h) |
Complement | 100 |
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