 Katori at anchor
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| History | |
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| Name | Katori |
| Namesake | Katori Shrine |
| Builder | Vickers Barrow-in-Furness, UK |
| Laid down | 27 April 1904 |
| Launched | 4 July 1905 |
| Commissioned | 20 May 1906 |
| Decommissioned | 20 September 1923 |
| Out of service | April 1922 |
| Stricken | 23 October 1923 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1924–25 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 15,950 long tons (16,210 t) (normal) |
| Length | 456 ft 3 in (139.1 m) |
| Beam | 78 ft (23.8 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) |
| Range | 12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 864 |
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Katori (香取 (戦艦)) was the lead ship of the two Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleships built in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). 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. Katori was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1925 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.