Construction
Akagi was designed as a two-masted rigged schooner with a steam engine with a horizontal double expansion reciprocating steam engine with two cylindrical boilers driving two screws. Initially, she was required with one 210-mm and one 120-millimeter guns, and two gatling guns, and was designed primarily for port defense. However, by early 1894, she had been rebuilt with a high short forecastle and four 120-millimeter guns arranged on her centerline, please six 47-mm rapid-fire guns (two by the bridge, facing forward, and two mounted in small sponsons on either side of the hull). All guns were protected by gun shields. Well armed for her size, she was rendered obsolete with the introduction of larger protected cruisers into the Imperial Japanese Navy inventory.
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