Japanese cruiser Mogami (1908)

Mogami in 1908 at Sasebo
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Mogami
Ordered	1904 Fiscal Year
Builder	Mitsubishi Yards, Nagasaki, Japan
Laid down	3 March 1907
Launched	25 March 1908
Commissioned	16 September 1908
Decommissioned	1 April 1928
Fate	Scrapped, 31 January 1929
General characteristics
Class and type	Yodo-class cruiser
Displacement	1,372 t (1,350 long tons)
Length	96.3 m (316 ft) o/a
Beam	9.5 m (31 ft)
Draft	3 m (9.8 ft)
Installed power	6,000 kW (8,000 hp)
Propulsion	3 × Parsons-type steam turbines 6 × Miyabara boilers 3 × shafts
Speed	23 kn (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Capacity	Coal: 68 tons; Fuel Oil: 352 tons
Complement	134
Armament	2 × QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IVs 4 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns 1 × machine gun 2 × 457 mm (18.0 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Deck: 62 mm (2.4 in) Conning Tower: 50 mm (2.0 in)

Mogami (最上) was the second ship in the Yodo class of high-speed protected cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Officially rated as a tsūhōkan, meaning dispatch boat or aviso, she was named after the Mogami River in northern Honshū, Japan. Her sister ship was Yodo. Yodo had a clipper bow and two smokestacks, whereas Mogami had a straight raked bow with three smokestacks.^[1]