Japanese battleship Asahi

Asahi was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. She became flagship of the Standing Fleet, the IJN’s primary combat fleet. Asahi saw no combat during World War I, although the ship participated in the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Reclassified as a coastal defence ship in 1921, Asahi was disarmed two years later to...