Japanese cruiser Yodo
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kobe, Japan |
| Plan: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down: | October 2 1906 |
| Launched: | November 11 1907 |
| Commissioned: | April 8 1908 |
| Fate: | Scrapped April 1 1940 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,250 tons |
| Length: | 93.1 meters overall |
| Beam: | 9.5 meters |
| Draught: | 3.0 meters |
| Propulsion: | Two Shaft Reciprocating Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) Engines; 4 boilers, 6,500 shp |
| Fuel: | 339 tons coal; 76 tons oil |
| Speed: | 22 knots |
| Complement: | 116 |
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| Armor: | deck 62mm; conning tower 50mm |
IJN Yodo (淀) was the lead ship in a new 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 Yodo's sister ship was the Mogami.
The Yodo was re-classified as a 1st class gunboat on 12 October 1912. It was scrapped on 01 April 1940.
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