Japanese cruiser Mogami (1908)
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Japan |
| Plan: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down: | March 3 1907 |
| Launched: | March 25 1908 |
| Commissioned: | September 16 1908 |
| Fate: | Scrapped April 1 1928 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons |
| Length: | 96.3 meters overall |
| Beam: | 9.5 meters |
| Draught: | 3.0 meters |
| Propulsion: | Three Shaft Turbine Engines; 6 boilers,8,000 shp |
| Fuel: | 68 tons coal; 352 tons oil |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Complement: | 134 |
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| Armor: | deck 62mm; conning tower 50mm |
IJN Mogami (最上) was the second ship in the Yodo-class of high speed cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built domestically in Japan. Intended to serve as dispatch vessels, these lightly armed and lightly armored ships were already obsolete when designed, with the development of wireless communication used during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The Mogami has the distinction of being the first turbine engine powered vessel in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The Mogami was re-classified as a 1st class gunboat on 12 October 1912. It was scrapped on 01 April 1928. Ironically, although the Mogami was considered the more modern and advanced in design, with its higher speed and turbine engine, it was retired much earlier than its sister ship, the IJN Yodo, largely due to performance and maintenance issues with its engines.
It should not be confused with the later and muh larger Pacific War era cruiser, IJN Mogami.
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