![]() Japanese gunboat Maya off Kure in 1892
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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 |
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 |
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Speed | 11.0 knots (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 early Imperial Japanese Navy.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[3]
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. [4] She was rearmed with four 4.7 in (120 mm) QF guns and two quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns in 1906.
She was removed from active combat status on 16 May 1908, and was used as a training vessel at the Yokosuka Naval District. Maya was removed from the navy list and transferred to the Home Ministry on 1 December 1911[3] for use as a police boat in Kobe 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.