 Yodo
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Yodo class |
| Builders | |
| Operators |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by | Tone |
| Succeeded by | Chikuma class |
| Built | 1906–1908 |
| In commission | 1908–1940 |
| Planned | 2 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 1,270 long tons (1,290 t)-1,372 long tons (1,394 t) |
| Length | 93.1 m (305 ft 5 in)-96.3 m (315 ft 11 in) o/a |
| Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 3 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| Speed | 22 knots (25 mph; 41 km/h)-33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
| Range | 3,300 nmi (6,100 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement | 180 |
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The two Yodo-class dispatch ship (淀型通報艦, Yodo-gata tsūhōkan) were a class of small, high-speed, dispatch ships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Although classified officially rated as a tsūhōkan, meaning dispatch boat or aviso, the class were essentially small protected cruisers. The Yodo class was followed by the larger, more conventional Chikuma class.[1]
- ^ Conway, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921, page 236