 Picture of Satsuma
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| History | |
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| Name | Satsuma |
| Namesake | Satsuma Province |
| Ordered | 1904 |
| Builder | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down | 15 May 1905 |
| Launched | 15 November 1906 |
| Commissioned | 25 March 1910 |
| Decommissioned | 1922 |
| Stricken | 20 September 1923 |
| Fate | Sunk as target, 7 September 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Satsuma-class semi-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 19,372–19,700 long tons (19,683–20,016 t) |
| Length | 482 ft (146.9 m) |
| Beam | 83 ft 6 in (25.5 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18.25 knots (33.8 km/h; 21.0 mph) |
| Range | 9,100 nmi (16,900 km; 10,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 800–940 |
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Satsuma (薩摩) was a semi-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Lead ship of her class, she was the first battleship built in Japan. She was named for Satsuma Province, now a part of Kagoshima prefecture. The ship saw no combat during World War I, although she led a squadron that occupied several German colonies in the Pacific Ocean in 1914. Satsuma was disarmed and sunk as a target in 1922–1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.