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This is a snap shot off the naval combat screen showing some of the new ship art that I have been working on lately.[:D]

Looks like the Pacific Jutland scenerio is going to have a whole new look! [8D]

Kurama class Armoured cruiser ? 1912 reclassified Battlecruiser.

Tsukuba class Battlecruiser

Japanese Destroyer Asakaze class.

Great stuff!

Thanks [8D]

Kawakaze class destroyer.

Minekaze class destroyer.

Amatsukaze class destroyer.

All new Heavy cruiser Furutaka class 1926.

All new Japanese light cruiser Yubari.

Japanese gunboat Uji this gunboat is a new addition to the database,built in 1903 and not broken up until 1936 so I see no reason why it was not in the game from day one,watch this space more Japanese gunboats will appear here soon [;)]





History

Following the First Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Navy developed a requirement for a shallow-draft coastal patrol vessel for patrols off the coast of China in addition to the existing Ôshima. For her design, the Japanese turned to the Royal Navy’s Bramble-class gunboat, the lead ship of which (HMS Bramble) was launched in 1898.

Uji was a metal-hulled gunboat with a triple expansion reciprocating steam engine with two boilers driving two screws. She lacked the full sailing rig of Ôshima and previous Japanese gunboats. Uji was laid down at the Kure Naval Arsenal in September 1902 and launched on March 14, 1903. She was completed on August 11, 1904 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as a second class gunboat.

Uji was completed after the start of the Russo-Japanese War, but her small size and firepower, and her lack of open ocean capability limited her operations to patrols of coastal areas of the Yellow Sea. However, she was assigned a role in the crucial final Battle of Tsushima against the Imperial Russian Navy. After the war, she was based at Shanghai and assigned to protection of Japanese citizens and commercial interests in the inland waters of China. However, her draught of 2 metres (6.6 ft) limited her area of operations to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Uji was removed from the active navy list on 1 April 1936 and was scrapped on August 25, 1936.


Japanese gunboat Uji off Kure, 1901



Career (Japan)

Name:
Uji

Ordered:
1901

Builder:

Kure Naval Arsenal

Laid down:

September 1903

Launched:

11 August 1903

Commissioned:

11 August 1904

Struck:

1 April 1936

Fate:

scrapped 25 August 1936

General characteristics

Displacement:

620 long tons (630 t)

Length:

57.8 m (190 ft)

Beam:

2.1 m (6 ft 11 in)

Draught:

2.1 m (6 ft 11 in)

Propulsion:

reciprocating steam engine
2 shafts, 4 boilers
1,000 hp (750 kW)

Speed:

13.0 knots (15.0 mph; 24.1 km/h)

Range:

1000 miles - 156 tons coal

Complement:

80

Armament:

• 4 × 80 mm (3 in) QF guns
• 3 × machine guns

Very nice job [8D]

All new Japanese Saga class gunboat.




IJN gunboat SAGA in 1915


Name:

Saga

General characteristics

Type:
Gunboat

Displacement:
785 tons normal, 885 tons full load

Propulsion:
2-shaft reciprocating engine, 1600 hp

Speed:
15 knots

Complement:
98

Armament:
• 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 cal. guns
• 3 × 76 mm (3.0 in)/ 40 cal. guns
• 3 × machine guns

Screenshot showing the Saga gunboat details in game.

Japanese Ataka class gunboat.

Here is a screenshot showing the Ataka as she is represented in game.

These gunboats are nice additions Kirk! Thanks for the history also.

Japanese Pre-Dreadnought Fuji class.[8D]

Japanese Armoured cruiser Kasuga + Nisshin classes.