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Two '''''Kongō'' class armored corvettes''' were completed for the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] in the late 1870s. | Two '''''Kongō'' class armored corvettes''' were completed for the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] in the late 1870s. | ||
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Revision as of 13:31, 9 May 2018
Two Kongō class armored corvettes were completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1870s.
Design & Construction
Designed by former Chief Constructor Sir Edward Reed.[1]
Performance
Armament
As Completed
- three 6.7-inch Krupp breech-loading rifles
- six 5.9-inch Krupp breech-loading rifles
- four 1-pounders
- seven machine guns
- two 14-inch above-water torpedo tubes
1895
- three 6.7-inch Krupp breech-loading rifles
- six 5.9-inch Krupp breech-loading rifles
- one 25mm quick-firing gun
- four 1-pounders
- seven machine guns
- two 14-inch above-water torpedo tubes
1903
- three 6.7-inch Krupp breech-loading rifles
- six 5.9-inch Krupp breech-loading rifles
- two 3-inch guns
- two 47mm guns
- six machine guns
- two 14-inch above-water torpedo tubes
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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