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Name: TATSUTA
Type: Torpedo Gunboat
Keel: 04/1893
Launched: 06/04/1894
Completed: 31/07/1894
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 609
Dimensions: 868disp, 240.0 x 27.5 x 9.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x VT3cyl (26, 40 & 57 x 24ins), 4700ihp to 5500ihp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 21.25knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 4 x 1 x 3pdr QF guns; 5 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes
History:
31/07/1894 Imperial Japanese Navy
09/12/1916 Renamed NAGAURA MARU
01/07/1920 Renamed NAGAURA
1926 Broken up
Comments: 28/08/1894: Interned at Aden during Chinese-Japanese War
20/01/1895: Released from internment
1903: Reboilered & single funnel replaced with 3 tall thin funnels
Re-classified as a light cruiser
15/04/1904: Ran aground at the Elliott Islands but later refloated
30/08/1904: Repaired and returned to service
1904: Used as a dispatch vessel in the Russo-Japanese war
1916: Converted to a submarine depot & repair ship


Above photo copyright Tyne & Wear Archives

Above photo from an 1898 copy of the Navy and Army Illustrated, courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo of TATSUTA after re-boilering and new funnels

Above photo of TATSUTA taken in 1908 courtesy of Photoship