Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Fuji Class

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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Fuji pictured in 1898.
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Fuji Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Yashima pictured at Kobe in 1898. She was built at Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Shipyards,Elswick,Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1896.She participated in the early stages of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Yashima was involved in subsequent operations until she struck two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904. She ship did not sink immediately, but capsized while under tow later that day. The Japanese were able to keep her loss a secret from the Russians for over a year. As a result, the Russians were unable to take advantage of the ship's loss.
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A view onboard YASHIMA with her aft 12s in view, plus a low bow view from 1897........ ;)

From WIKI:
Name: Yashima
Namesake: "Many Islands", a name for Japan
Ordered: 1894 Naval Programme
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick
Cost: ¥10,500,000
Yard number: 625
Laid down: 6 December 1894
Launched: 28 February 1896
Completed: 9 September 1897
Fate: Sank 15 May 1904 after striking two mines
General characteristics
Class and type: Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 12,230 long tons (12,430 t) (normal)
Length: 412 ft (125.6 m) (o/a)
Beam: 73 ft 6 in (22.4 m)
Draught: 26 ft 3 in (8 m) (deep load)
Installed power:
13,500 ihp (10,100 kW)
10 cylindrical boilers
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 18.25 knots (34 km/h; 21 mph)
Range: 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 650
Armament:
2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns
10 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns
14 × single 3-pdr (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns
10 × single 2.5-pdr (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns
5 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:
Harvey armour
Belt: 14–18 in (356–457 mm)
Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)
Gun turrets: 6 in (152 mm)

The YASHIMA sank while under tow after striking two mines off Port Arthur. DFO
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Fuji Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Yashima pictured off Kure on February 22nd 1900. She was designed and built at Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company Ltd Shipyards,Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1896. She participated in the early stages of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Yashima was involved in subsequent operations until she struck two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904. She did not sink immediately, but capsized while under tow later that day. The Japanese were able to keep her loss a secret from the Russians for over a year. As a result, the Russians were unable to take advantage of the ship's loss.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Fuji pictured at Kure Naval Arsenal on June 24th 1905....Built at Thames Iron Works Shipyards at Blackwall on the Thames in 1896. She participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war with her sister Yashima. Fuji fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action. She was reclassified as a Coastal Defence Ship in 1910 and served as a Training Ship for the rest of her career. She was hulked in 1922 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Fuji pictured at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on October 10th 1908.
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Laundry day for ASAHI! ;) I wonder how many times a wind shift caused BLACK whites???? DFO
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Fuji Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Yashima pictured at Kure Naval Arsenal on May 9th 1898....On March 10th 1904, Yashima and her sister Fuji, under the command of Rear-Admiral Nashiba Tokioki, blindly bombarded the harbour of Port Arthur from Pigeon Bay, on the south west side of the Liaodong Peninsula, at a range of 5.9 miles. They fired 154 twelve-inch shells, but did little damage. When they tried again on March 22nd, they were attacked by newly emplaced coast-defence guns that had been transferred there by the new Russian commander, Vice-Admiral Stepan Makarov, and also from several Russian ships in Port Arthur using observers overlooking Pigeon Bay. The Japanese ships disengaged after Fuji was hit by a twelve-inch shell.
Yashima participated in the action of April 13th when Tōgō successfully lured out a portion of the Pacific Squadron, including Makarov's flagship, the Battleship Petropavlovsk. When Makarov spotted the five Battleships of the 1st Division, he turned back for Port Arthur and Petropavlovsk struck a mine laid by the Japanese the previous night. The Russian Battleship sank in less than two minutes after one of her magazines exploded and Makarov was one of the 677 killed. Emboldened by his success, Tōgō resumed long-range bombardment missions, which prompted the Russians to lay more minefields.
On May 14th, Nashiba put to sea with his flagship Hatsuse and two other Battleships, Shikishima, and Yashima, the Protected Cruiser Kasagi, and the Dispatch Boat Tatsuta to relieve the Japanese blockading force off Port Arthur. On the following morning, the squadron encountered a minefield laid by the Russian Minelayer Amur. Hatsuse struck one mine that disabled her steering around 11:10 and Yashima struck two others when moving to assist Hatsuse. One blew a hole in her starboard aft boiler room and the other detonated on the starboard forward side of her hull, near the underwater torpedo room. After the second detonation the ship had a 9° list to starboard that gradually increased throughout the day.
Yashima was towed away from the minefield, north towards the Japanese base in the Elliott Islands. She was still taking on water at an uncontrollable rate, and Sakamoto ordered the ship anchored around 17:00 near Encounter Rock to allow the crew to easily abandon ship. He assembled the crew, which sang the Japanese national anthem, Kimigayo, and then abandoned ship. Kasagi took Yashima in tow, but the Battleship's list continued to increase, and she capsized about three hours later, after the Cruiser was forced to cast off the tow.
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