Japanese cruiser Miyako

Miyako (宮古) was an unprotected cruiser of the early Imperial Japanese Navy.

Miyako was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat) for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of high priority messages.

Similar in design to Yaeyama and the French unprotected cruiser Milan (1885), Miyako was the first warship produced by the new Kure Naval Arsenal.

She had a steel hull, and retained two masts for auxiliary sail propulsion in addition to her steam engine.

While engaged in a survey of Dairen Harbor in search of a suitable landing place for the ground forces of the Imperial Japanese Army's IJA 2nd Army, Miyako struck a mine and sank within minutes on the night of 14 May 1904, with the loss of two crewmen.