Japanese gunboat Maya
Japanese gunboat Maya off Kure in 1892
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Maya |
| Ordered: | 1883 |
| Builder: | Onohama Shipyards |
| Laid down: | 1 June 1885 |
| Launched: | 18 August 1886 |
| Commissioned: | 10 January 1888 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 May 1908 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1911 |
| Fate: | scrapped 1932 |
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| 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) |
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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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| Service record | |
| Operations: | Siege of Port Arthur |
Maya (摩耶?) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the lead vessel in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Maya in Kobe.
Maya was an iron-ribbed, iron-sheathed, two-masted gunboat with a horizontal double expansion reciprocating steam engine with two cylindrical boilers driving two screws. She also had two masts for a schooner sail rig.
Maya was laid down at the Onohama Shipyards in Kobe on 1 June 1885 and launched on 18 August 1886. She was completed on 20 January 1888.
Maya saw combat service in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Hashimoto Masaaki, patrolling between Korea, 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.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Maya assisted in the Siege of Port Arthur, and also made a sortie up the Yalu River to attack Russian positions, and was part of the Japanese fleet for the invasion of Sakhalin. She was rearmed with four 4.7 in (120 mm) QF guns and two quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns in 1906.
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