page_title: List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
section_title: Steam warships
hierarchical_section_title: List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy / Early modern warships / Steam warships
context_page_description: The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868-1945. This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army.
context_section_description: Kankō Maru (1855), Japan's first steam warship.
  Kanrin Maru (1855) – Japan's first screw-driven steam warship
  Chōyō (1858)
  Kaiyō Maru (1866)
  Kaiten
  Banryū
  Chogei
  Shinsoku
  Mikaho
  Yoshun　　ja:陽春丸
  Kasuga
  Chiyodagata (1863), Japan's first domestically-built steam warship.
  Hiryū
  Teibo
  Ryūjō (1864) 
  Unyo
  Nisshin
  Takao
  Moshun
caption: The Japanese gunboat Unyo.
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