For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Maya.
Japanese gunboat Maya 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 and 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
reciprocating steam engine
2 shafts, 2 boilers
950 hp (710 kW)
Speed
11.0 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/h)
Range
60 tons coal
Complement
104
Armament
2 × 150 mm (6 in) Krupp L/22 breech-loading gun
2 × 1-inch Nordenfelt guns
Service record
Operations:
Siege of Port Arthur
Maya (摩耶) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy.[1] She was the lead vessel in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Maya in Kobe.
^Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. page 115
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