Japanese battleship Kashima

Kashima at anchor
History
Japan
NameKashima
NamesakeKashima Shrine
Ordered1904
BuilderArmstrong Whitworth, Elswick
Yard number755
Laid down29 February 1904
Launched22 March 1905
Completed23 May 1906
Out of serviceApril 1922
Stricken20 September 1923
FateScrapped, 1924
General characteristics
Class and typeKatori-class semi-dreadnought battleship
Displacement16,383 long tons (16,646 t) (normal)
Length473 ft 7 in (144.3 m)
Beam78 ft 2 in (23.8 m)
Draught26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement864
Armament
Armour

Kashima (鹿島 (戦艦), Kashima (senkan)) was the second ship of the two Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards. Ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, 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. Kashima was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.