Japanese battleship Kashima
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| Name: | Kashima |
| Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth, UK |
| Laid down: | 29 February 1904 |
| Launched: | 22 March 1905 |
| Commissioned: | 23 May 1906 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1924 |
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| Class and type: | Katori class battleship |
| Displacement: | 16,400 tons (normal); 17,200 tons (max) |
| Length: | 129.54 metres (425.0 ft) meters at waterline |
| Beam: | 23.81 metres (78.1 ft) |
| Draught: | 8.12 metres (26.6 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft VTE steam engine, 15,600 shp (11,630 kW); 20 boilers |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 2007 tons coal; 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) @ 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 864 |
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Kashima (鹿島 (戦艦) Kashima (senkan)) was a Katori class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Armstrong Whitworth at the Elswick Yard, in the United Kingdom. The name Kashima comes from the famous Kashima Jingu Shinto shrine in Ibaraki prefecture, located to the northeast of Tokyo. Its sister ship was the battleship Katori.
Background
Kashima and Katori were ordered in response to the loss of the Hatsuse and Yashima in the early Russo-Japanese War. Although the armored cruisers Nisshin and Kasuga successfully held their own in the line of battle during the crucial Battle of Tsushima, the Japanese Navy projected that a fleet of six battleships was the minimum necessary against potential threats from China, Russia or the United States. Although construction was rushed, Kashima was not delivered until after the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
Operational history
Kashima arrived at Yokosuka on 1906-08-04 after her maiden voyage and shakedown cruise from Portsmouth, England. On 1907-09-17, Kashima suffered from a major explosion while off Kure due to an accidental explosion of a shell from one of her 10-inch (250 mm) guns.[1]
During the visit of the United States Navy's Great White Fleet on its around-the-world voyage, Kashima was part of the escort fleet through Japanese waters in October 1908.
Although rendered obsolete by the development of the Dreadnaught class battleships, Kashima served as part of the Japanese fleet involved in covering the landings of troops and coastal patrol during the Siberian Intervention of 1918-1921.
From March to September 1920 Kashima accompanied her sister ship Katori in escorting Crown Prince Hirohito in his visit to various European nations, the first such visit ever for a Japanese crown prince.
As a result of the Washington Naval Agreement, the Kashima was decommissioned on 1923-09-23, and was sent to the breakers in 1924. However, some of its larger guns were salvaged, and re-used in coastal artillery batteries around Tokyo Bay.
The battleship Kashima should not be confused with the light cruiser Kashima of the Pacific War era.
References
- ↑ New York Times, September 18, 1907
- Andidora, Ronald (2000). Iron Admirals: Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31266-4.
- Brown, D. K. (1999). Warrior to Dreadnought, Warship Development 1860-1906. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-84067-529-2.
- Evans, David (1979). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870211927.
- Hoare, J.E. (1999). Britain and Japan, Biographical Portraits, Volume III. RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 1873410891.
- Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0689114028.
- Jane, Fred T. The Imperial Japanese Navy. Thacker, Spink & Co (1904) ASIN: B00085LCZ4
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 087021893X.
- Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804749779.
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