Japanese gunboat Maya

For the World War II cruiser, see Japanese cruiser 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
Struck: 1 December 1911
Fate: scrapped 1932
General characteristics
Class & 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:
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.

Background

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]

Operational history

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.

Notes

  1. Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. page 115
  2. Chesneau, All the World’s Fighting Ships, p. 236.
  3. 1 2 3 Nishida, Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
  4. Corbett, Maritime Operations in The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.

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