Japanese sloop Nisshin
Japanese warship Nisshin | |
| History | |
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| Name | Nisshin |
| Builder | Netherlands |
| Laid down | December 29, 1867 |
| Launched | January 10, 1868 |
| Commissioned | March 3, 1870 |
| Decommissioned | March 25, 1892 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1893 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,468 long tons (1,492 t) |
| Length | 62 m (203 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged sloop |
| Speed | 9 knots (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Range | 200 tons of coal |
| Complement | 250 |
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Nisshin (日進; literally, Day by Day) was an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled three-masted screw sloop with a coal-fired steam engine of the early Meiji period, serving with the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy.