Japanese gunboat Akagi
Akagi at Kure in 1902 | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Akagi |
| Ordered | 1885 |
| Builder | Onohama Shipyards |
| Laid down | 20 July 1886 |
| Launched | 7 August 1888 |
| Commissioned | 20 August 1890 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1911 |
| Fate | Sold 1912; scrapped 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Maya-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 622 long tons (632 t) |
| Length | 51.0 m (167.3 ft) |
| Beam | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10.0 knots (11.5 mph; 18.5 km/h) |
| Range | 74.4 tons coal |
| Complement | 111 |
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Akagi (赤城) was a steel-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the fourth and final vessel to be completed in the four-vessel Maya class and was named after Mount Akagi in Gunma Prefecture.