The 1400-ton corvette Asama, purchased in France, did not shine with its merits either. The veteran left the final retirement after the Russian-Japanese war. Artillery was changed twice on it and, according to some reports, in 1892, the Tsukuba even received four 152-mm rapid-fire guns. However, the Japanese treated this antiquity, like all their warships, with great care and love. True, for him the beginning did not look inspiring for example, the corvette "Tsukuba" with a displacement of about 1900 tons, built almost 20 years ago in the British colony of Burma and then modernized in the metropolis "Old Man" (which the language does not dare to call a cruiser ) developed under pairs of no more than 10 knots. In addition to organizing the fleet and training personnel, they arranged the purchase of warships. But over the years allotted to them, the British managed to do a lot of useful things. However, the Japanese were very careful, and the British operated under numerous restrictions. Several English instructors arrived in the country, which was completely closed from the rest of the world, to begin training seafarers and transferring modern technologies. In 1870, the most powerful navy in the world, the British, was chosen as a landmark. Japan was faced with a dilemma, either to restore old ships, or to renew the fleet. Among them was the only battleship purchased from the rebellious American Confederation of the southern states, a wooden corvette and a gunboat, as well as several armed steamers and sailing ships. It included the ships of the bakufu, the feudal government, and the ships inherited from its defeated opponents, primarily the powerful Satsuma clan.
The Ministry of War (in which the Navy was originally in charge) got a strange set of ships that could be called combat ships with great stretch and which clearly did not represent the navy. The country got out of the power of the feudal clans, and the fleet became unified. In 1868, the Meiji Yixing coup took place in Japan, as a result of which the power of the emperor was restored.
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