Japanese corvette Tenryū

Japanese armed sloop Tenryū
History
Empire of Japan
NameTenryū
Ordered1877 Fiscal Year
BuilderYokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan
Laid down9 February 1878
Launched18 August 1883
Commissioned5 March 1885
Stricken21 December 1911
FateScrapped 1912
General characteristics
TypeSteam corvette
Displacement1,547 long tons (1,572 t)
Length67.4 m (221 ft 2 in)
Beam9.8 m (32 ft 2 in)
Draft5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion
  • Horizontally-mounted reciprocating engine, 1,260 hp (940 kW)
  • 4 boilers
  • 1 shaft
Sail planBarque-rigged sloop
Speed12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Range256 tons coal
Complement210
Armament
  • 1 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading gun
  • 1 × 150 mm (5.9 in) Krupp breech-loading gun
  • 4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
  • 1 × 75 mm (3 in) gun
  • 4 × 25 mm (0.98 in) quadruple Nordenfelt guns

Tenryū (天龍, Heavenly Dragon) was a sail-and-steam corvette of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Tenryū was named after the Tenryū River in Shizuoka and Nagano Prefectures.

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