Japanese battleship Katori
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 The Japanese battleship Katori |
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| Career |  |
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| Built: | Vickers Naval Yards, Great Britain |
| Ordered: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down | April 27 1904 |
| Launched: | July 4 1905 |
| Completed: | May 20 1906 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1924 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 15,590 tons (normal); 16,663 tons (max) |
| Length: | 139.0 meters at waterline |
| Beam: | 23.80 meters |
| Draught: | 8.2 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft VTE Reciprocating, 20 boilers; 16,600 HP |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots |
| Fuel: | 2000 tons coal; Range: 10,000 nm @ 10 knots |
| Complement: | 864 |
| Armament: |
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| Armor: | belt230 mm, fore belt 100mm, aft belt 60mm, upper belt 150mm;
barbette 125-300mm, 25cm gun barbette 160mm, turret 230mm, 25cm gun turret 200mm, conning tower 230mm, deck 50mm |
The IJN Katori (香取) was a pre-dreadnought class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Vickers shipyards, in the United Kingdom. The name Katori comes from a famous Shinto shrine in Ibaraki prefecture, located to the northeast of Tokyo. Its sister ship is the battleship Kashima.
The Kashima and Katori were ordered in response to the loss of the Hatsuse and Yashima in Russo-Japanese War. Although the armored cruisers Nisshin and Kasuga successfully held their own in the line of battle during the crucial Battle of Tsushima, the armoured cruisers lacked the size and firepower to be as effective as battleships. As the Japanese Navy projected that a fleet of six battleships was the minimum necessary against potential threats from China, Russia or the United States, an order was placed to Great Britain. Although construction was rushed, and the design was based largely on the previous Mikasa with improvements as per the Royal Navy's latest HMS King Edward VII-class battleships, the Katori was delivered after the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
The Katori participated WW-1, but without a notable battle record.
In 1922, the Katori took Prince Regent Hirohito (later Emperor Showa) on a six month tour of the United Kingdom and five other European countries: (France, Italy, Vatican City, the Netherlands, and Belgium) thus making him the first Japanese crown prince to travel abroad.
As a result of the Washington Naval Agreement, the Katori was decommissioned on 20 September 1923, and was sent to the breakers in Maizuru in 1924. However, some of its larger gun were salvaged, and re-used in coastal artillery batteries around Tokyo Bay.
The battleship Katori should not be confused with the light cruiser Katori of the Pacific War era.
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