 Mikasa in Yokosuka, Japan, 2021
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by | Asahi |
| Succeeded by | Katori class |
| Built | 1899–1900 |
| In commission | 1902–1923 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Preserved | 1 |
| History | |
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| Name | Mikasa |
| Namesake | Mount Mikasa |
| Ordered | 26 September 1898 |
| Builder | Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 24 January 1899 |
| Launched | 8 November 1900 |
| Commissioned | 1 March 1902 |
| Stricken | 20 September 1923 |
| Status | Preserved as a memorial ship |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 15,140 long tons (15,380 t) (normal) |
| Length | 432 ft (131.7 m) |
| Beam | 76 ft (23.2 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 836 |
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Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the war, Mikasa's magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. Afterwards, the ship served as a coast-defence ship during World War I and supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War.
After 1922, Mikasa was decommissioned in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty and preserved as a museum ship at Yokosuka. She was badly neglected during the post-World War II Occupation of Japan and required extensive refurbishing in the late 1950s. She has been partially restored, and is now a museum ship located at Mikasa Park in Yokosuka. Mikasa is the last surviving example of a pre-dreadnought and non-American battleship anywhere in the world and also the last surviving example of a British-built battleship.[a][1]
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- ^ Hammick, Murray (25 November 2018). "The one remaining British-built battleship left". The Military Times. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2021.