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Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka
 Kotaka (1887)
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| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Kotaka |
| Ordered | 1885 |
| Builder | Yarrow & Company, United Kingdom |
| Laid down | 1887 |
| Launched | 21 January 1887 |
| Completed | 10 October 1888 |
| Commissioned | 19 August 1890 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1908 |
| Fate | Scrapped 27 January 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Displacement | 203 long tons (206 t) |
| Length | 50.3 m (165 ft) |
| Beam | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
| Draught | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion | Coal-fired engine (mixed coal/oil from 1904), 1,400 hp (1,044 kW) |
| Speed | 19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
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Kotaka (小鷹, ”Little Falcon”) was a torpedo boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was ordered in 1885 from the shipbuilder Yarrows in London, Great Britain, where she was built in parts along Japanese specifications, and then assembled in Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan.
She participated in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). She was decommissioned on 1 April 1908, to become a training ship. She was retired on 1 March 1916, but again reactivated in 1917, ending her career in January 1927.
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