Japanese warship Fujiyama
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Fujiyama (富士山) was a Japanese steam frigate acquired by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period immediately prior to the Meiji Restoration. She was built in New York City, United States, in 1864.
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Name | Fujiyama |
Namesake | Mount Fuji |
Ordered | 1862 |
Launched | 1864 |
Acquired | 7 December 1866 (by Tokugawa Navy) |
Commissioned | 28 April 1869 (by IJN) |
Decommissioned | 10 May 1889 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, August 1896 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steam frigate |
Displacement | 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) |
Length | 63 m (206 ft 8 in) w/l |
Beam | 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 3.27 m (10 ft 9 in) |
Propulsion | 350 hp (261 kW) steam engine |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 134 |
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