| Name: | TATSUTA |
| Type: | Torpedo Gunboat |
| Keel: | 04/1893 |
| Launched: | 06/04/1894 |
| Completed: | 31/07/1894 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 609 |
| Dimensions: | 868disp, 240.0 x 27.5 x 9.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl (26, 40 & 57 x 24ins), 4700ihp to 5500ihp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 21.25knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 4 x 1 x 3pdr QF guns; 5 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 31/07/1894 | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| 09/12/1916 | Renamed NAGAURA MARU |
| 01/07/1920 | Renamed NAGAURA |
| 1926 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 28/08/1894: Interned at Aden during Chinese-Japanese War |
| 20/01/1895: Released from internment | |
| 1903: Reboilered & single funnel replaced with 3 tall thin funnels | |
| Re-classified as a light cruiser | |
| 15/04/1904: Ran aground at the Elliott Islands but later refloated | |
| 30/08/1904: Repaired and returned to service | |
| 1904: Used as a dispatch vessel in the Russo-Japanese war | |
| 1916: Converted to a submarine depot & repair ship |
Above photo copyright Tyne & Wear Archives
Above photo from an 1898 copy of the Navy and Army Illustrated, courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo of TATSUTA after re-boilering and new funnels
Above photo of TATSUTA taken in 1908 courtesy of Photoship