 Japanese gunboatMaya off Kure in 1892 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Maya |
| Ordered | 1883 |
| Builder | Onohama Shipyards |
| Laid down | 1 June 1885 |
| Launched | 18 August 1886 |
| Commissioned | 10 January 1888 |
| Decommissioned | 16 May 1908 |
| Stricken | 1 December 1911 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Maya-classgunboat |
| 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 | 11.0knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h) |
| Range | 60 tons coal |
| Complement | 104 |
| Armament |
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| Service record | |
| Operations | Siege of Port Arthur |
Maya (摩耶) was an iron-hulled,steam gunboat, serving in the earlyImperial Japanese Navy.[1] She was the lead vessel in the four vesselMaya class, and was named afterMount Maya inKobe.
Maya was an iron-ribbed, iron-sheathed, two-masted gunboat with a horizontal double expansion reciprocatingsteam engine with two cylindrical boilers driving two screws.[2] She also had two masts for aschooner sail rig.
Maya waslaid down at theOnohama Shipyards in Kobe on 1 June 1885 andlaunched on 18 August 1886. She was completed on 20 January 1888.[3]
Maya saw combat service in theFirst Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 under the command of Lieutenant CommanderHashimoto Masaaki, patrolling betweenKorea,Dairen and escorting Japanese transports.
On 21 March 1898,Maya was re-designated as a second-class gunboat, and was used for coastal survey and patrol duties.[3]
During theRusso-Japanese War of 1904-1905,Maya assisted in theSiege of Port Arthur, and also made a sortie up theYalu River to attack Russian positions, and was part of the Japanese fleet for theinvasion of Sakhalin.[4] She was rearmed with four 4.7 in (120 mm) QF guns and two quadruple1-inch Nordenfelt guns in 1906.
She was removed from active combat status on 16 May 1908, and was used as a training vessel at theYokosuka Naval District.Maya was removed from thenavy list and transferred to theHome Ministry on 1 December 1911[3] for use as a police boat inKobe harbor. She was subsequently demilitarized and sold in December 1918 to a commercial trading firm, Ikeda Shoji, who used her as a transport until she was scrapped in 1932.
Major Japanese naval combatants of theFirst Sino-Japanese War  | |
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| Protected cruisers | |
| Armored corvettes | |
| Ironclad warship | |
| Gunboats | |