Japanese cruiser Yaeyama
Yaeyama in the 1880s | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Yaeyama |
| Ordered | 1885 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Yokosuka Shipyards, Japan |
| Laid down | June 1887 |
| Launched | March 1889 |
| Completed | 15 March 1890 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1 April 1911 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement | 1,584 long tons (1,609 t) |
| Length | 96.9 m (317 ft 11 in) w/l |
| Beam | 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 4 m (13 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion | 2-shaft, 6 boilers (8 after 1902), 5,630 hp (4,200 kW) |
| Speed | 20.75 knots (23.88 mph; 38.43 km/h) |
| Range | 5000 nm @ 10 knots |
| Capacity | 350 tons coal |
| Complement | 200 |
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Yaeyama (八重山) was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Yaeyama comes from the Yaeyama Islands, the southernmost of the three island groups making up current Okinawa prefecture. Yaeyama was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat) for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of high priority messages.