Japanese sloop Nisshin

Japanese warship Nisshin
History
Name	Nisshin
Builder	Netherlands
Laid down	December 29, 1867
Launched	January 10, 1868
Commissioned	March 3, 1870
Decommissioned	March 25, 1892
Fate	Scrapped 1893
General characteristics
Displacement	1,468 long tons (1,492 t)
Length	62 m (203 ft 5 in)
Beam	9.7 m (31 ft 10 in)
Draught	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	reciprocating steam engine, 4 boilers, 1 screw 710 ihp (530 kW)
Sail plan	Barque-rigged sloop
Speed	9 knots (10 mph; 17 km/h)
Range	200 tons of coal
Complement	250
Armament	=*1 × 178 mm (7.0 in) muzzle-loading gun 4 160 mm (6.3 in) guns 2 × 4 pds guns 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) mortars

Nisshin (日進, literally, Day by Day) was an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled three-masted screw sloop with a coal-fired steam engine of the early Meiji period, serving with the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy.