Sunday, December 30, 2007

Mikasa (三笠)

Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-Dreadnought battleship, formerly of the Imperial Japanese Navy, launched in Britain in 1900.
She served as the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro during the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, as well as several other engagements during the Russo-Japanese War. Currently, she is preserved as a museum ship at Yokosuka. Mikasa is the last remaining example of a pre-dreadnought battleship anywhere in the world.

Displacement: 15,140 t
Length: 132 m LOA
Beam: 23.2 m
Draught: 13.2 m
Propulsion: 15,000 hp triple expansion
Fuel: Coal
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 860
Armament: 4 × 305 mm (12 inches) guns

14 × 150 mm (6 inches) guns
20 × 80 mm (3 inches) guns
Torpedoes: 4 × 400 mm underwater tubes