Japanese cruiser Yodo

Yodo in 1908 at Yokosuka
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Yodo
Ordered	1904 Fiscal Year
Builder	Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe
Laid down	2 October 1906
Launched	11 November 1907
Commissioned	8 April 1908
Decommissioned	1 April 1940
Fate	Broken up for scrap, 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Yodo-class cruiser
Displacement	1,270 t (1,250 long tons)
Length	93.1 m (305 ft 5 in) o/a
Beam	9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Draught	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft reciprocating (VTE) engines; 4 Miyabara boilers; 6,500 shp (4,800 kW) 339 tons coal; 76 tons oil
Speed	22 knots (25 mph; 41 km/h)
Complement	116
Armament	2 × QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IV s 4 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun s 1 × machine gun 2 × 457 mm (18.0 in) torpedo tubes
Armour	Deck: 62 mm (2.4 in) Conning tower: 50 mm (2.0 in)

Yodo (淀) was the lead 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, Yodo was named after the Yodo River outside Osaka, Japan. Her sister ship was Mogami. Yodo had a clipper bow and two smokestacks, whereas Mogami had a straight raked bow with three smokestacks.^[1]