Protected Cruisers: Yodo Class

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Protected Cruisers: Yodo Class

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Yodo Class high speed Protected Cruiser Mogami pictured on completion at Sasebo Naval Arsenal on November 10th 1908.. Officially rated as a tsūhōkan, meaning dispatch boat or aviso..Designed and built domestically in Japan, the lightly armed and lightly armoured Yodo Class vessels were intended for scouting, high speed reconnaissance, and to serve as dispatch vessels. However, they were already obsolete when designed..Mogami had the distinction of being the first turbine-powered vessel in the IJN...However, as the Japanese could not yet produce reduction gears, Mogami utilized an unwieldy system of three direct-drive marine turbine engines, two for cruising and one for high speed. She was also the first warship to be produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki..From 1921 to 1928, Mogami was assigned to patrols off of the Siberian coast, and to fishery patrol duties, during the period of Japan's Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War...Mogami was scrapped on April 1st 1928. Although Mogami was considered the more modern and advanced in design, with her higher speed and turbine engine, she was retired much earlier than her sister ship, Yodo, largely due to performance and maintenance issues with her engines..While being dismantled at Osaka, a spark from a welding torch ignited the remaining oil in Mogami's bunkers, causing an explosion and fire which destroyed the hulk of the vessel in two hours. The mainmast of Mogami was preserved at the Nakanoshima Park in downtown Osaka as a memorial until February 9th 2009 when it was removed to the Kure Maritime Museum.
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