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The was a four-ship class of gunboats of the early Imperial Japanese Navy.〔 page 115〕 ==Design and description== The ''Maya'' vessels were Japan’s first iron-hulled gunboats, although only and had true iron hulls. had a composite hull construction, whereas had a steel hull. All four vessels had auxiliary schooner-rigged sails. The ''Maya''-class ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . They displaced at normal load.〔Chesneau, '' All the World’s Fighting Ships'', p. 236.〕 The crew numbered about 104 officers and enlisted men.〔 Propulsion was by a coal-fired horizontal double-expansion reciprocating steam engine with two cylindrical boilers driving a double screw. The engines were rated at , and designed to reach a top speed of .〔 The ''Maya''-class ships were initially intended to be armed with one Krupp Krupp L/22 breech-loading gun, and one Krupp L/22 breech-loading gun, with two quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns as secondary armament.〔 However, each ship later modified to carry different armament in 1906. Two of the three vessels (''Maya'' and ''Akagi'') were built by the private-contractor, Onohama Shipyards in Kobe (a predecessor of Hitachi Zosen Corporation), and one (''Chōkai'' ) was by built by the private-contractor Ishikawajima-Hirano Shipyards. ''Atago'' was built by the government’s Yokosuka Naval Arsenal All four ships served in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. In 1898, the ships were reclassified as second-class gunboats. ''Atago'' was lost in combat during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. ''Maya'' and ''Chōkai'' were removed from the navy list in 1908 and were subsequently broken up in 1913. ''Akagi'' was removed from the navy list in 1911,〔Nishida, '' Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy''〕 but survived under civilian ownership until 1953.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maya-class gunboat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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