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| Career |
 |
| Name: |
Chiyodagata |
| Builder: |
Ishikawajima |
| Laid down: |
May 7, 1861 |
| Launched: |
July 2, 1863 |
| Decommissioned: |
January 28, 1888 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
140 long tons (142 t) |
| Length: |
29.7 m (97 ft 5 in) p/p
31.3 m (102 ft 8 in) w/l |
| Beam: |
4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
| Draught: |
2 m (6 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: |
Coal-fired reciprocating steam engine, 60 hp (45 kW)
1 shaft |
| Speed: |
5 knots (5.8 mph; 9.3 km/h) |
| Complement: |
35 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 150 mm (6 in) gun
• 2 × small guns |
Chiyodagata (千代田形?) was a gunboat of the Tokugawa Navy, and Japan's first domestically-built steam warship (Japan's first steamship was the Unkoumaru (雲行丸?) built by the fief of Satsuma in 1855). She was laid down May 7, 1861, and launched July 2, 1863 by the shipbuilder, and future industrial giant, Ishikawajima.
She participated in the conflict of the Boshin War on the side of the troops loyal to the Shogun, against the newly formed Imperial troops. She was captured during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay, May 4, 1869, after having been abandoned in a grounding, and then incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy.
