Japanese battleship Kashima
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 The Japanese battleship Kashima |
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| Career |  |
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| Built: | Armstrong Whitworth Naval Yards, Great Britain |
| Ordered: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down | February 29 1904 |
| Launched: | March 22 1905 |
| Completed: | May 23 1906 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1924 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 16,400 tons (normal); 17,200 tons (max) |
| Length: | 129.6 meters at waterline |
| Beam: | 23.80 meters |
| Draught: | 8.1 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft VTE Reciprocating, 20 boilers; 15,800 HP |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots |
| Fuel: | 2007 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 Kashima (鹿島) was a pre-dreadnought class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Armstrong Whitworth at the Elswick Yard, in the United Kingdom. The name Kashima comes from the famous Kashima Jingu Shinto shrine in Ibaraki prefecture, located to the northeast of Tokyo. Its sister ship is the battleship Katori.
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 King Edward VII class battleships, the Kashima was delivered after the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
The Kashima was the last Japanese battleship built by a foreign shipyard, and the last Japanese battleship built with a ram bow.
The Kashima participated WW-1, but without a notable battle record.
As a result of the Washington Naval Agreement, the Kashima was decommissioned on 20 September 1923, and was sent to the breakers in 1924. However, some of its larger gun were salvaged, and re-used in coastal artillery batteries around Tokyo Bay.
The battleship Kashima should not be confused with the light cruiser Kashima of the Pacific War era.
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