japanese battleship lead ship class pre dreadnought battleships built imperial_japanese_navy british firm late 1890s ship participated russo japanese war including second day war sister fought battles lightly damaged action ship reclassified coastal defence ship served training ship rest career finally broken scrap design description feet long overall beam feet inches load draught feet normally displaced long tons crew officers enlisted men ship powered vertical triple expansion steam engines steam generated cylindrical boilers engines rated indicated horsepower forced draught designed reach speed knots mph reached speed knots mph sea trials carried maximum tonnes long tons coal allowed steam nautical miles speed knots mph ship main battery consisted inch guns mounted twin gun turrets forward aft secondary battery consisted inch quick firing guns mounted casemates sides hull mounted upper deck protected gun shields number smaller guns carried defence torpedo boats included fourteen millimetre pounder guns pounder hotchkiss guns calibre armed inch torpedo tubes waterline armour belt consisted harvey armour inches thick armour gun turrets inches thick deck inches thick construction career named ordered naval programme ship laid thames iron works london shipyard august ship launched march completed august work supervised team engineers naval officers japan including future prime ministers fitting portland participated fleet review marking queen_victoria june departing japan suez_canal ship exchanged guns equal number pounder cwt guns raised number crewmen later start russo japanese war commanded captain assigned 1st division 1st fleet participated february admiral led 1st fleet attack russian ships anchored outside port arthur expected surprise night attack russians destroyers successful actually expected find badly disorganized weakened russians recovered surprise ready attack japanese ships spotted patrolling offshore alerted russian defences chose attack russian coastal defences main armament engage russian ships secondary guns splitting fire proved bad idea japanese inch inch guns inflicted little significant damage russian ships concentrated fire japanese ships effect large number ships sides hit russian casualties numbered japanese suffered killed wounded hit shells battle killed wounded crewmen march sister command rear admiral bombarded harbour port arthur southwest range kilometres fired inch shells little damage tried march attacked russian coast defence guns transferred new russian commander vice admiral russian ships port arthur observers overlooking japanese ships hit inch shell participated action april successfully lured portion including flagship battleship spotted battleships 1st division turned port arthur struck minefield laid japanese previous night russian battleship sank minutes magazines exploded killed success resumed long range bombardment missions prompted russians lay minefields battle august hit russian ships concentrated fire leading ship column flagship battleship hit dozen times penetrated hood rear barbette ignited exposed charges killed men wounded ammunition fire left gun barbette resumed firing apparently fired coup sank battleship october hosted dinner american ambassador officers world cylindrical boilers replaced water tube boilers main armament replaced japanese built guns reclassified class coast defence ship year training duties capacities disarmed spent world war based hulk continued floating barracks training center damaged american carrier aircraft july attack capsized end war ship scrapped
Japanese battleship Fuji