Japanese cruiser Saiyen
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| Image:HIJMS Saiyen.jpg The Japanese cruiser Saiyen |
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| Career |  |
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| Built: | Stettiner Vulcan AG shipyards, Germany |
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| Laid down | |
| Launched: | June 6 1883 |
| Completed: | 1885; to Japan February 1895 |
| Fate: | Mined off Port Arthur, November 30 1904 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,440 tons |
| Length: | 75.0 meters at waterline |
| Beam: | 1.7 meters |
| Draught: | 4.67 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating, 2 boilers; 2,800 HP |
| Speed: | 15 knots |
| Fuel: | 230 tons coal |
| Complement: | 230 |
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| Armor: | 75 mm deck armor; 50 mm turret |
The IJN Saiyen was a protected cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, originally built for the Beiyang Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, by the Stettiner Vulcan AG shipyards in Stettin, Germany. Obsolete transliterations of its Chinese name include Tche-Yuen, Tsi-yuan or Chi-yuan. In terms of design, it resembled the contemporary Japanese Matsushima-class cruisers, in the use of large cannons on a relatively small displacement hull.
It was captured by the Japanese in the first Sino-Japanese War during the Battle of Weihaiwei, and was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as the 2nd class cruiser Saiyen on 16 March 1895. It was re-classified as a 3rd class Coastal Defense Vessel on 11 November 1904. It sank after being mined off of Port Arthur [38.51N, 121.05E] in the early days of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
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