Japanese corvette Yamato
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 Yamato at Kobe in 1889-1890 | |
| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Yamato |
| Namesake | Yamato province |
| Ordered | 1882 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Onohama Shipyards, Japan |
| Laid down | 23 November 1883 |
| Launched | 1 May 1885 |
| Commissioned | 16 November 1888 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1935 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Katsuragi-class corvette |
| Displacement | 1,476 long tons (1,500 t) |
| Length | 62.78 m (206 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 10.7 m (35 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged sloop |
| Speed | 13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
| Range | 145 tons coal |
| Complement | 231 |
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Yamato (大和, Yamato) was the second vessel in the Katsuragi class of three composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Yamato province, the old name for Nara prefecture and the historic heartland of Japan. The name was used again for the World War II battleship Yamato, commissioned in 1941.
Yamato was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted bark-rigged sloop-of-war with a coal-fired double-expansion reciprocating steam engine with six cylindrical boilers driving a single screw. Her basic design was based on experience gained in building the Kaimon and Tenryū sloops, but was already somewhat obsolescent in comparison to contemporary European warships when completed.[1] However, unlike her sister ships Katsuragi and Musashi, which were built by the government-owned Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. Yamato was built by the Onohama Shipyards, in Kobe. Her first captain was future Fleet Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.
