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Japanese battleship Katori : ウィキペディア英語版 | Japanese battleship Katori
was the lead ship of the two pre-dreadnought battleships built in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, the ship was completed a year after its end. She saw no combat during World War I, although the ship was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918. ''Katori'' was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–25 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. ==Design and description== The ''Katori''-class ships were ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 as improved versions of the Royal Navy’s s.〔 ''Katori'' was long overall and had a beam of . She had a full-load draught of and normally displaced and had a crew of 864 officers and enlisted men. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines using steam generated by 20 Niclausse boilers. The engines were rated at , using forced draught, and were designed to reach a top speed of . ''Katori'', however, reached a top speed of from on her sea trials. She carried a maximum of of coal and of fuel oil which was sprayed on the coal to increase their power. This allowed her to steam for at a speed of .〔Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 22〕 The ship's main battery consisted of four 12-inch guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one forward and one aft. The secondary armament consisted of four 10-inch guns mounted in four single-gun turrets positioned on each side of the superstructure. ''Katori'' also carried 12 quick-firing (QF) QF 6-inch guns, mounted in casemates on the sides of the hull and in the superstructure. A number of smaller guns were carried for defence against torpedo boats. These included a dozen QF 12-pounder guns and three 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns. She was also armed with five submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes, two on each broadside and one in the stern. ''Katori''s waterline armour belt consisted of Krupp cemented armour and was thick. The armour of her main gun turrets had a maximum thickness of and her deck ranged from in thickness.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 227〕
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