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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...

Two Japanese warships have borne the name Kotaka: Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka, a torpedo boat launched in 1888 and stricken in 1927 Japanese gunboat Kotaka...

Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (Hayabusa-gata suiraitei) were a class of fifteen 1st class torpedo boats constructed for the Imperial Japanese Navy as part...

Kotaka may refer to: Japanese gunboat Kotaka, a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka, a torpedo boat of the Imperial...

The Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka of 1885 was "the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later". They were designed to Japanese specifications...

torpedo-boat destroyer (TBD) was the Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka (Falcon), built in 1885. Designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the Isle of...

Kotaka (小鷹) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the...

The Ōtori-class torpedo boat (鴻型水雷艇, Ōtori-gata suiraitei) were a class of eight fast torpedo boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy built before and operated...

The Chidori-class torpedo boat (千鳥型水雷艇, Chidori-gata suiraitei) was an Imperial Japanese Navy class of torpedo boats that were built before and served...

surprise to the Allies, who had generally underestimated Japanese technical capabilities. The Japanese had reassessed their naval needs in the mid-1920s and...

Katata Futami Atami Seta Kotaka Toba Hira Tatara (ex-USS Wake (PR-3)) Suma (ex-HMS Moth (1915)) Kozakura-class traffic boat No. 1 class No. 13 class No...

This List of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II. It includes...

Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker") were crewed torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II. In recognition...

France to Japan in December 1886, created embarrassment however. Japan turned again to Britain, with the order of a revolutionary torpedo boat, Kotaka, which...

a major departure from prior Japanese aircraft carrier design and was expected to not only survive multiple bomb, torpedo, or shell hits, but also continue...

Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red castle", named after Mount Akagi) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Though she was laid down...

Akitsu Maru (あきつ丸) was a Japanese "Type C" landing craft depot ship and escort aircraft carrier operated by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). In some sources...

treaty-circumventing Japanese warships of her generation. The Tomozuru Incident of 12 March 1934, in which a top-heavy torpedo boat capsized in heavy weather...

Tomozuru Incident of 1934, in which a top-heavy torpedo boat capsized in heavy weather, caused the Japanese command to investigate the stability of all their...

destroyer to be armed with 15 torpedo tubes, each capable of firing the deadly 610 mm (24 in) Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo. The ship also served as a testbed...