Japanese cruiser Miyako
Miyako in 1902 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Miyako |
| Ordered | 1893 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Kure Shipyards, Japan |
| Laid down | 26 May 1894 |
| Launched | 27 October 1898 |
| Completed | 31 March 1899 |
| Stricken | 21 May 1905 |
| Fate | Sunk by mine 14 May 1904 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement | 1,772 long tons (1,800 t) |
| Length | 314 ft (95.7 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10.4 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 6,130 ihp (4,570 kW), 8 locomotive boilers, 400 tons coal |
| Speed | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Complement | 200 |
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Miyako (宮古) was an unprotected cruiser of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Miyako comes from the Miyako Islands, one of the three island groups making up current Okinawa prefecture. Miyako was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat) for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of high priority messages.