The gunboat Chiyodagata ( Japanese千代 田 形) belonged to the Navy of the Tokugawa Shogunate and was the first steamship built in Japan . She was laid down on May 7, 1861 and completed on July 2, 1863 by the shipbuilder and later industrial company Ishikawajima .
She participated in the Boshin War on the side of the Shogun loyal troops against the newly established Imperial Japanese Navy . In May 1868 imperial troops were able to conquer the Chiyodagata , but the ship came back under the control of the shogunate on October 4, 1868. It was re-taken over by the Imperial Navy during the Sea Battle of Hakodate on May 4, 1869, after being stranded and abandoned. It was then incorporated into the Imperial Navy, but decommissioned in June 1869. In January 1888 the ship was sold to a whaling company and finally scrapped in 1911.
literature
Gardiner, Robert (Ed.): Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 . Conway Maritime Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-85177-133-5 .
Footnotes
^ Gardiner: Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships. 1979, p. 235.
