Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Katori Class

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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IJNS Katori pictured on launch day at Vickers Shipbuiding & Engineering Ltd Shipyards,Barrow-in-Furness,July 4th 1905.The last to be built by British Shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she was completed a year after its end. She saw no combat during World War I, although the ship was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Katori was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1925 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
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Two views of the completed KATORI..........DFO
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship IJNS Katori pictured c1906.Built at Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Shipyards,Barrow-in-Furness in 1905,the last to be built by British Shipyards for Japan.The Katori Class ships were ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 as improved versions of the Royal Navy’s King Edward VII Class Battleships.Her main battery consisted of four 12-inch guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one forward and one aft. The secondary armament consisted of four 10-inch guns mounted in four single-gun turrets positioned on each side of the superstructure.She also carried twelve QF 6-inch guns, mounted in casemates on the sides of the hull and in the superstructure. A number of smaller guns were carried for defence against Torpedo Boats. These included a dozen 12-pounder guns and three 1.9 inch 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns. She was also armed with five submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes, two on each broadside and one in the stern.
Her waterline armour belt consisted of Krupp cemented armour and was 3.5–9 inches thick. The armour of her main gun turrets had a maximum thickness of 9 inches and her deck ranged from 2 to 3 inches in thickness.
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Katori Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Kashima pictured fitting out at Armstrong Whitworth's Shipyard,Elswick,Newcastle upon Tyne in 1906.
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Katori pictured with the ill fated Warrior Class Armoured Cruiser HMS Natal fitting out at Vickers & Sons,Maxim Shipyards,Barrow-in-Furness c1905....Natal was anchored at Cromarty Firth on December 30th 1915,when she was destroyed by a magazine explosion,later found to have been caused by faulty cordite,with a loss of over 400 lives.
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Katori pictured on the ways on launch day at Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Shipyard,Barrow-in-Furness on July 4th 1905.
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Katori Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Kashima pictured as completed, off Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company Shipyards at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on May 31st 1906...She was the last to be built by British Shipyards. Ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she was completed a year after its end. She saw no combat during World War I, although she was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Kashima was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
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Various views of x-Russian OREL as IJN IWAMI; captured after war of 1904-05......... ;) DFO
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Lead ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Katori pictured off Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness during speed trials on April 28th 1906, where she attained a sustained speed of 20.22 knots.
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Katori Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Kashima pictured as completed off Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company Shipyards at Elswick in 1906...She was the last to be built by British Shipyards, ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she was completed a year after its end. She saw no combat during World War I, although she was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Kashima was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
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