Japanese Gunboat Tsukushi, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tsukushi was a gunboat in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Tsukushi, the old name for Kysh island. Its sister ship the Chaoyong was acquired by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet, and was sunk at the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Tsukushi was designed by Edward James Reed and at the Armstrong Whitworth shipyards at Newcastle upon Tyne in England as the Arturo Prat for Chilean Navy. However, in the middle of construction, Chile cancelled the order for economic reasons, and the Japanese Navy picked up the contract for the semi-completed vessel.