Japanese gunboat Chōkai
Japanese gunboat Chōkai at Sasebo, 1889 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Chōkai |
| Ordered | 1883 |
| Builder | Ishikawajima-Hirano Shipyards |
| Laid down | 25 January 1886 |
| Launched | 20 August 1887 |
| Commissioned | 27 December 1888 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1908 |
| Stricken | 23 May 1911 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Maya-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 614 long tons (624 t) |
| Length | 47.0 m (154.2 ft) |
| Beam | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h) |
| Range | 60 tons coal |
| Complement | 104 |
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Chōkai (鳥海) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the second vessel to be completed in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Chōkai in between Yamagata and Akita Prefectures.