Yashima was a Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1890s. She participated in the early stages of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. The Fuji class had a waterline armour belt that consisted of Harvey armour 14–18 inches thick.
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Yashima was a Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to construct such vessels, the ship was designed and built in the United Kingdom. She participated in the early stages of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Yashima struck two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904. The ship did not sink immediately, but capsized while under tow later that day. The Japanese were able to keep her loss a secret from the Russians for over a year, as a result, the Russians were unable to take advantage of the ship’s loss. She was initially assigned to the Standing Fleet, the IJN’s primary combat fleet, but was reduced to reserve on 20 November. Two years later, she was placed in reserve where she remained until reactivated on 28 December 1903 and assigned to 1st Fleet the Combined Fleet.
At the start of the First World War, she commanded the 1st Division of the standing fleet. The Fuji class had a waterline armour belt that consisted of Harvey armour 14–18 inches thick. Their gun turrets were protected by 6-inch armour plates and their decks were 2. 5 inches thick. The ships were designed by Philip Watts as smaller versions of the British Royal Sovereign class, although they were slightly faster and had a better type of armour. The main battery consisted of four 12-inch guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure, and five 18-inch torpedo tubes, one above water in the bow and a submerged pair on each broadside. The sisters carried enough coal to allow them to steam for 4,000 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots.
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