 Fuji at anchor, 1908
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| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Fuji |
| Namesake | Mount Fuji |
| Ordered | 1894 |
| Builder | Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London |
| Laid down | 1 August 1894 |
| Launched | 31 March 1896 |
| Commissioned | 8 August 1897 |
| Decommissioned | 1923 |
| Reclassified | 1 September 1922 as training hulk and barracks |
| Stricken | 1 September 1922 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 12,230 long tons (12,430 t) (normal) |
| Length | 412 ft (125.6 m) |
| Beam | 73 ft 6 in (22.4 m) |
| Draught | 26 ft 3 in (8.0 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 650 |
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Fuji (富士) was the lead ship of the Fuji class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British firm of Thames Iron Works in the late 1890s. The ship participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war with her sister Yashima. Fuji fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action. The ship was reclassified as a coastal defence ship in 1910 and served as a training ship for the rest of her career. She was hulked in 1922 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948.