Japanese corvette Kasuga

History
Lay-Osborn Flotilla
Name	Keangsoo (江蘇) Chen Wu (鎮吳)
Namesake	Jiangsu province
Builder	J. Samuel White
Laid down	1862
Launched	5 March 1863
In service	1863–1864
Fate	Sold to Charles Stuart Forbes, 1865 Sold to the Satsuma Domain, 3 November 1867
Satsuma Domain
Name	Kasuga
Acquired	3 November 1867
Decommissioned	2 February 1894
Fate	Scrapped 1902
General characteristics
Type	Dispatch vessel
Displacement	1,289 long tons (1,310 t)
Tons burthen	1000 bm
Length	241.5 feet (73.6 m)
Beam	29 feet (8.8 m)
Draught	9.25 feet (2.82 m)
Installed power	300 nhp 2,279 ihp (1,699 kW)
Propulsion	Oscillating cylinder steam engine
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Armament	2 × 68-pounder guns 4 × 18-pounder long guns

Kasuga Maru (春日丸, Vernal Sun) was a Japanese wooden paddle steamer warship of the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period, serving with the navy of Satsuma Domain, and later with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was originally named Keangsoo (Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; lit. 'Jiangsu'), and was a wooden dispatch vessel built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was constructed in 1862 by Whites at Cowes, she formed part of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla during the Taiping Rebellion.