History | |
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Lay-Osborn Flotilla | |
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Namesake | Jiangsu province |
Builder | J. Samuel White |
Laid down | 1862 |
Launched | 5 March 1863 |
In service | 1863–1864 |
Fate |
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Satsuma Domain | |
Name | Kasuga |
Acquired | 3 November 1867 |
Decommissioned | 2 February 1894 |
Fate | Scrapped 1902 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Dispatch vessel |
Displacement | 1,289 long tons (1,310 t) |
Tons burthen | 1000 bm |
Length | 241.5 feet (73.6 m) |
Beam | 29 feet (8.8 m) |
Draught | 9.25 feet (2.82 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | Oscillating cylinder steam engine |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Armament |
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Kasuga Maru (春日丸, Vernal Sun) was a Japanese wooden paddle steamer warship of the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period, serving with the navy of Satsuma Domain, and later with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was originally named Keangsoo (Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; lit. 'Jiangsu'), and was a wooden dispatch vessel built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was constructed in 1862 by Whites at Cowes, she formed part of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla during the Taiping Rebellion.