DEFENX'E
760
tected cruisers built and builliug, r» third-class cruisers, and 12 gun vessels, kc. The torpedo Hotilla consists of 16 iirst-class, 23 second-class, and 28 third-class boats.
The following table includes all the battleships built and building, armoured cruisers and principal protected cruisers (abbreviations : b. barbette battleship ; c.d. coast defence vessel ; a.c. armoured cruiser ; p.c. protected cruiser ; q.f. quick -liring gun) : —
c
Name.
CO
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« C ■
Principal armament
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3:
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18 IS
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Yasliiitia Fuji .
18%
isor.
12,320 12,320
]4 12-in.; 10 0-in. Q.F.; 20 3-pr. Q.F,
14,000
18-5
h
Shikishiiiia .
1S!18
14,850
1
b
h
Asalii . Unnamerl .
—
15,200 15,000
9
9
(4 12-in. Q.F.; 14 6-in. Q.F.; 20 12 pr. j QF.
5
14,500
18-5
b
Uniiaiiud .
—
15,000
c d
Chin-Ye)i
1SS2
7.400
14
4 12-in.; 2 5-9-in
3
6,200
14-0
r (I
Hel-Yei Kon-Go
187S
1S77
2,200 2.200
tl
\ 3 6-6-in. ; 6 5-9-in.
—
2,490
13-0
c d
Ping-Yen
1890
2,000
8
1 10-2-in. ; 2 5-9-in.
4
2,400
11-0
<l c
Chiyoda
1880
2,450
4i
10 4-7-in. Q.F. ; 14 3 pr, Q.F.
3
5,700
17-5
a c
Tokiwa
1898
9,750
7
]
a c
Asania
1898
9,750
7
U 8-in, Q.F.; 14 6-in. Q.F. ; 12 12 pr.( ( Q.F. /
r.
18,000
21-5
a c
Unnamed .
—
9,750
7
o
a c
Yakunio
—
9,850
►• 1
)
a (■
Aznma
_.
9,4;:;o
6
4 8-in.Q.F.; 12 6-in. Q.F. ; 12 3-in.Q.F.
5
17,000
21-0
p c
Akitsiishima
189-2
3.150
—
4 6-in. Q.F. ; 6 4-7-in. Q F.
4
8,400
190
P c
Hashidate .
1891
4,277
\
P <^
Itsukusliinia
1891
4,277
\ 1 12-5-in. ; 11 4-7-in. Q.F.
4
5,400
17-0
p c
JIatsushima
1890
4,277
—
/
pc pc
Naniwa Takachiho .
1885 1885
3,650 3,700
—
1 2 10-2-iu. J 6 5-9-in.
4
7,235
185
p c
Yoshiuo
1892
4,180
—
4 6in. Q.F. ; 8 1 7-in. Q.F.
5
15,000
23-0
P c
Chitose , j
1898
4.760
—
\
pc i
p '^ !
Kasat,'i Takasago
1897 1897
4,760 4,160
— j
2S-iii. Q.F. ; 10 4-7-in. Q.F.
15,500
22-5
pc
i
Unnamed .
—
4,160
1
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The two battleships Yashiina and Fuji, first of the class in the Japanese navy, were built in England. Dimensions : — Length 374 feet, beam 73 feet, draught 26 feet 6 inches ; armouring from 6 to 18 inches ; armament, four 12-iuch guns coupled in barbettes fore and aft, and ten 6-inch, twenty 3-pounder and four smaller quick-firers, with five torpedo tubes. Another ship of the type, but of gri^ater displacement (14,850 tons), the Shikishima, is completing at the Thames Ironworks. She is a very powerful ship, 400 feet long, with 75 feet beam, 9-inch Harvey plating, and a chief armament oi four 12-inch guns. Three other battleships of the same type have been laid down, at Elswick, Clydebank, and Barrow. All will be magnificent vessels, as good as anything afloat, and generally resembling the Majestic. Five very powerful armoured cruisers approximating to 9,750 tons are in hand at Elswick, Stettin, and Rochefort. They will be swift vessels, well armoured with Harvey steel, and carrying a very large quick-firing armament. A cruiser of the Yoshino type (4,160 tons) has been built at Elswick, and nameil the Takasago, and another is in hand. The Kasagi and Chitose have been completed in America.
The sister ships Hoshidate, If-mkusJizma, and 3fa(mshima (the first built
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