Japanese corvette Yamato

Yamato at Kobe in 1889-1890
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Yamato
Namesake	Yamato province
Ordered	1882 Fiscal Year
Builder	Onohama Shipyards, Japan
Laid down	23 November 1883
Launched	1 May 1885
Commissioned	16 November 1888
Stricken	1 April 1935
Fate	Sunk in typhoon September 1945, Raised and scrapped 1950
General characteristics
Class and type	Katsuragi-class corvette
Displacement	1,476 long tons (1,500 t)
Length	62.78 m (206 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)
Draft	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	Horizontally-mounted reciprocating engine, 1,622 hp (1,210 kW) 6 boilers, shaft
Sail plan	Barque-rigged sloop
Speed	13 knots (15 mph; 24 km/h)
Range	145 tons coal
Complement	231
Armament	2 × 170 mm (6.7 in) Krupp breech-loading guns 5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 1 × 80 mm (3.1 in) gun 4 × quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Yamato (大和, Yamato) was the second vessel in the Katsuragi class of three composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Yamato province, the old name for Nara prefecture and the historic heartland of Japan. The name was used again for the World War II battleship Yamato, commissioned in 1941.