Asahi 1900
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 朝日 <Asahi> | John Brown, Clydebank, UK | 1/8/1898 | 13/3/1899 | 31/7/1900 | repair ship 4/1923 |
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Displacement normal, t |
15200 |
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Displacement full, t |
15374 |
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Length, m |
122.0 pp 126.5 wl 129.6 oa |
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Breadth, m |
22.9 |
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Draught, m |
8.30 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
VTE, 25 Belleville boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
15000 |
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Max speed, kn |
18 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 1549 |
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Armour, mm |
Harvey nickel steel - belt: 229 - 102, bulkheads: 356 - 152, upper belt: 152, casemates: 152 - 51, deck: 102 - 25, barbettes: 356 - 203, turrets: 254 - 203, CT: 356/76 |
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Armament |
2 x 2 - 305/40 EOC G, 14 x 1 - 152/40 QF EOC Z, 20 x 1 - 76/40 EOC N / Vickers Z, 6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 6 x 1 - 47/30 Hotchkiss, 4 - 450 TT (beam) |
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Complement |
830 |
Ship project history: Asahi was built under 1896 program and differed from Shikishima mainly by number of funnels.
Ship protection: Main 76.2m belt was 2.5m high, its thickness amidships was 229mm (127mm at lower edge) decreasing consequently to 178 and 102mm near ship ends. It connected with main gun barbettes by 356-152mm bulkheads. Upper 66m belt was 152mm thick and 2.3m high. Casemates had 152mm face and 51mm rear armor. Barbettes had 356mm thickness over and 203mm under main deck. Turrets had 254mm faces, 203mm sides and rears and 102mm roofs. CT had 356mm sides and 76mm roof. 51mm armoured deck over citadel connected with lower edge of main belt by 102mm slopes. It had turtleback form outside barbettes and had 76-51mm thickness.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: The active participant of the Russian-Japanese war. Badly damaged by Russian mine near Port Arthur 26/10/1904 and was under repair till April, 1905. To the First World War beginning she has become outdated and in 1914 reclassified as gunnery TS. In 1923 she was disarmed and converted to submarine rescue ship and used in this quality till 1938, then served as repair ship and sunk off Vietnam coast by American submarine Salmon 25/5/1942.
Asahi 1900
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