List of Japanese steam battleships
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This is a list of Japanese battleships and early armored and steam ships of the period 1640-1905:
Early steam ships
- Shōhei Maru (1854)
- Kanrin Maru (1855) - Japan's first screw-driven steam warship
- Kaiten
- Banryo (1856) - Ex-Emperor, BU c. 1899
Early armored ships
- Ryūjō (1864) - Armored corvette, ex-Ihosho Maru, BU 1904
- Kōtetsu (1864, ex-CSS Stonewall) - Ironclad ram, renamed Azuma, stricken 1888
- Kaiyō Maru (1865)
- Fusō (1877) - Armored frigate/small central battery ship, BU 1910
- Hiei class - Armored corvettes
- Hiei (1877) - Stricken 1909
- Kongō (1877) - Stricken 1911
- Chin'en (1882, ex-Chinese turret ship Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914
- Heien (1882, ex-Chinese armored gunboat P'ing-yuan, captured 1895) - Mined 1904
Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Fuji class
- Shikishima class
- Shikishima (1898) - BU 1948
- Hatsuse (1899) - Mined 1904
- Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
- Mikasa (1900) - Preserved at Yokosuka, Kanagawa
- Sagami (1898, ex-Russian Peresviet, sank 1904, captured 1905) - Returned to Russia 1916 as Peresviet, mined 1917
- Suwo (1900, ex-Russian Pobieda, sank 1904, captured 1905) - BU 1922
- Hizen (1900, ex-Russian Retvizan, sank 1904, captured 1905) - Scuttled 1924
- Tango (1894, ex-Russian Poltava, sank 1904, captured 1905) - Returned to Russia 1916 as Poltava, BU 1923
- Iki (1889, ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905) - Scuttled 1915
- Iwami (1902, ex-Russian Orel, captured at the Battle of Tsushima 1905) - Scuttled 1915
- Mishima (1894, ex-Russian Admiral Senyavin, captured at the Battle of Tsushima 1905) - Scuttled 1936
- Okinoshima (1896, ex-Russian General-Admiral Graf Apraxin, captured at the Battle of Tsushima 1905) - BU 1939
- Katori class
- Satsuma class
- Kawachi class
