Design
Takao was a steel-ribbed and steel hulled vessel. It retained a full barque rigging with two masts for auxiliary sail propulsion in addition to her steam engine with single smoke stack. Takao was armed with four 152 mm (6.0 in) L/35 Krupp guns as its main battery and had one QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IVs gun and one QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss gun as its secondary battery. In addition, she had two 1-in Nordenfelt guns and carried two torpedoes, mounted on the deck.
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