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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

CAPITAL SHIPS

KASHIMA battleships

Kashima 1906

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
鹿島 <Kashima>   Armstrong, Elswick, UK 29/2/1904 22/3/1905 23/5/1906 stricken 9/1923
香取 <Katori>   Vickers, Barrow, UK 27/4/1904 4/7/1905 20/5/1906 stricken 9/1923
  

Displacement normal, t

Kashima: 16400

Katori: 15950

Displacement full, t

Kashima: 17200

Katori: 16663

Length, m

Kashima: 128.0 pp 139.6 oa

Katori: 129.5 pp 139.0 oa

Breadth, m

23.8

Draught, m

Kashima: 8.10

Katori: 8.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4-cyl VTE, 20 Niclausse boilers

Power, h. p.

Kashima: 16600

Katori: 15800

Max speed, kn

18.5

Fuel, t

Kashima: coal 2200, oil 750

Katori: coal 2150, oil 377

Armour, mm

belt: 229 - 102 (fwd) - 64 (aft), upper belt: 152, deck: 51 (with 76-mm slopes), main gun barbettes: 305 - 127, main gun turrets: 229, 10`` gun barbettes: 152, 10`` gun turrets: 203, CT: 229

Armament

2 x 2 - 305/45 Armstrong, 4 x 1 - 254/45 Vickers, 10 x 1 - 152/45 Elswick, 14 x 1 - 76/40 EOC N / Vickers Z, 2 x 1 - 76/23 EOC, 5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)

Complement

864

Ship project history: They were built in UK, project was developed on the basis of King Edward VII battleship. Ships of the pair were differed from each other by many data.

Ship protection: Main belt placed on full ship length and was 2.4m heigh. 51mm armoured deck over citadel connected with lower edge of main belt by 76mm slopes.

Modernizations: 1916, both: - 4 x 1 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 76/23; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki AA

Naval service: They were disarmed in April, 1922 and sold for BU in 1924-1925.

Kashima

Katori 1906

 

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