Japanese gunboatUn'yō
 Japanese warshipUn'yō
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| History | |
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| Name | Un'yō |
| Builder | A. Hall & Co.,Aberdeen,United Kingdom |
| Launched | 1868 |
| Acquired | February 1870 (by Chōshū Domain) |
| Commissioned | July 4, 1870 |
| Decommissioned | October 31, 1876 |
| Fate | Scrapped and sold, May 14, 1877 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 245long tons(249 t) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Draught | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | 1-shaft Coal-fired steam engine, 60 ihp (45 kW) |
| Sail plan | 2-masted brig |
| Speed | 10 knots |
| Complement | 65 |
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Un'yō(Vân dương,Rising Cloud)was an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled sail-and-steamgunboatof the earlyMeiji period,serving with the fledglingImperial Japanese Navy.She was a two-mastedbrigwith an auxiliary coal-firedsteam enginedriving a single screw.
Background
[edit]Un'yōwas ordered inBritainby theChōshū Domainin 1868. She was built byA. Hall & Co.,Aberdeen,Scotland,and was turned over to the Domain in February 1870 as theUn'yō Maru.On July 25, 1871, she was transferred to theMeiji governmentand assigned to the newly formed Imperial Japanese Navy, as theUn'yō.
Imperial Japanese Navy
[edit]Un'yōwas one of the ships dispatched toKyūshūin 1874 during theSaga Rebellion.In May 1875, she carried diplomats toBusaninKoreain an attempt by the Japanese government to opendiplomatic relationswith theJoseondynasty government. After they were rebuffed in these negotiations, the Japanese government again dispatchedUn'yōin September 1875 under the command ofInoue Yoshikato provoke a military response, in what was later termed theGanghwa Island incident.This and the following blockade eventually led to theTreaty of Ganghwa,which opened theKorean Peninsulato Japanese trade.[1]In 1876,Un'yōwas assigned to assist in the suppression of theHagi Rebellion,another uprising of disaffected formersamurai.[citation needed]Un'yōwas severely damaged when she ran aground at Atawa-Mura, on the coast of theKii Peninsula,with the loss of 23 of her crew.[2]She was scrapped the following year.[citation needed]
Notes
[edit]- ^Nahm, Andrew C. (1993).Introduction to Korean History and Culture,page 146–147. Seoul: Hollym Corporation.ISBN0-930878-08-6
- ^"Shipping Disasters".Newcastle Courant.No. 10543. Newcastle upon Tyne. 19 January 1877.
References
[edit]- Jane, Frederick Thomas.The Imperial Japanese Navy.Nabu Press(2010PODreprint of 1923 edition)ISBN1-142-91693-6
- Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977).Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945.Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute.ISBN0-87021-893-X.
- Lengerer, Hans (2020). "The Kanghwa Affair and Treaty: A Contribution to the Pre-History of the Chinese–Japanese War of 1894–1895".Warship International.LVII(2). International Naval Research Organization: 110–131.ISSN0043-0374.