Smederevac94

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Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and was the only ship of her class. The ship served as the flagship of 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.Less than a week after the end of the war, Mikasa's magazine exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. The ship 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 later 1950s. Mikasa is the last remaining example of a pre-dreadnought battleship anywhere in the world. She was named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan. Background: Combat experience in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 convinced the Imperial Japanese Navy of weaknesses in the Jeune Ecole naval philosophy, which emphasized torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive heavily armoured ships, and Japan embarked on a program to modernize and expand its fleet in preparation for further confrontations. In particular, Japan promulgated a ten-year naval build-up programme, with the construction of six battleships and six armoured cruisers at its core. These ships were paid for from the £30,000,000 indemnity paid by China after losing the First Sino-Japanese War. As with the earlier Fuji and Shikishima-class battleships, Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships, and turned again to the United Kingdom for the four remaining battleships of the programme.[2] Mikasa, the last of these ships, was ordered from the Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in 1898 at the cost of £880,000 (8.8 million yen at that time). Although she closely resembled several of the other ships ordered in this program, she was the only ship in her class. Design and description: The design of Mikasa was a modified version of the Formidable-class battleships of the Royal Navy with two additional 6-inch (152 mm) guns. Mikasa had an overall length of 432 feet (131.7 m), a beam of 76 feet (23.2 m), and a normal draught of 27 feet 2 inches (8.3 m). She displaced 15,140 long tons (15,380 t) at normal load. The crew numbered about 830 officers and enlisted men. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller, using steam generated by 25 Belleville boilers. The engines were rated at 15,000 indicated horsepower (11,000 kW), using forced draught, and designed to reach a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) although Mikasa proved to be faster during her sea trials in December 1901. The ship reached a top speed of 18.45 knots (34.17 km/h; 21.23 mph) using 16,341 indicated horsepower (12,185 kW). She carried a maximum of 2,000 tonnes (2,000 long tons) of coal which allowed her to steam for 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). Mikasa's main battery consisted of the same four Elswick Ordnance Company 40-calibre twelve-inch guns used in all of the preceding Japanese battleships. They were mounted in twin-gun barbettes fore and aft of the superstructure that had armoured hoods to protect the guns and were usually called gun turrets. The hydraulically powered mountings could be loaded at all angles of traverse while the guns were loaded at a fixed angle of +13.5°. They fired 850-pound (386 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,400 ft/s (730 m/s). The ship's secondary armament consisted of fourteen 45-calibre 6-inch (152 mm) quick-firing guns mounted in casemates. Ten of these guns were positioned on the main deck and the other four guns were placed above them at the corners of the superstructure. They fired 100-pound (45 kg) shells at a muzzle velocity of 2,300 ft/s (700 m/s). Protection against torpedo boat attacks was provided by twenty QF 12-pounder 12 cwt guns. The 12-pounders fired 3-inch (76 mm), 12.5-pound (5.7 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,359 ft/s (719 m/s). Lighter guns consisted of eight 47-millimetre (1.9 in) three-pounder Hotchkiss guns and eight 47-millimetre 2.5-pounder Hotchkiss guns. The three-pounder gun fired 3.19-pound (1.45 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 1,927 ft/s (587 m/s) while the 2.5-pounder fired 2.5-pound (1.1 kg) shells at a muzzle velocity of 1,420 ft/s (430 m/s).The ship was also equipped with four submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes, two on each broadside. The waterline armour belt of Mikasa consisted of Krupp cemented armour that had a maximum thickness of 9 inches (229 mm) over the middle of the ship. It was only 4 inches (102 mm) inches thick at the ends of the ship and was surmounted by a six-inch strake of armour that ran between the barbettes.The barbettes were 14 inches (356 mm) thick, but reduced to six inches at the level of the lower deck. The armour of the barbette hoods had a thickness of 8–10 inches (203–254 mm). The casemates protecting the secondary armament were 2–6 inches (51–152 mm) thick and the deck armour was 2–3 inches (51–76 mm) in thickness. The forward conning tower was protected by 14 inches of armour, but the aft conning tower only had four inches of armour.Mikasa, like all the other Japanese battleships of the time, was fitted with four Barr & Stroud FA3 coincidence rangefinders that had an effective range of 7,300 metres (8,000 yd). In addition the ships were also fitted with 24-power magnification telescopic gunsights.

Sakamoto_Mio, on 06 August 2013 - 04:01 PM, said: I am in love i think, suddenly i got a weird feeling I would love to see this ship in the game.

unauwen, on 05 August 2013 - 08:15 PM, said: ah what a beauty yeap

Sakamoto_Mio, on 06 August 2013 - 03:54 PM, said: nice ship but for WoWs maybe :P with all that smoke you can see it from tens of miles away This ship is from WW1, that time all the ships used coal.

Nice info keks.

GJ :honoring:

Nice info.

novadragon79, on 05 August 2013 - 04:35 PM, said: Great post Smederevac :medal: +1 Tnx man :honoring: :honoring: :honoring:

+1 from, nice info man :great: :honoring:

Luke_BS, on 05 August 2013 - 08:05 AM, said: Wow... This vs. H-44 would be an epic battle! But probably every computer would crash at that! Great ship and info! :medal: I'm glad you like it :honoring:

grizzlyfish, on 05 August 2013 - 05:38 AM, said: cool ship cheers +1 Cheers :bajan:

Hugly, on 04 August 2013 - 07:25 PM, said: As far as i know these ships were planned - and would have been realistic, too. In fact they would have been nearly the same design as the Yamato-class, with 3 x 2 51cm Guns instead of the 3 x 3 46 cm as can be seen in the pictures from the model. Developement of the 51 cm (50,8 cm) guns already started... so yes, it's possible... Personally i doubt these ships would have been effective, because aiming with the 51 cm guns would have been not precise enough - even the Yamato class already had problems with hitting a target... Very efficient and dangerous... :glasses:

WarxOfx23th, on 04 August 2013 - 07:13 PM, said: This thing would be something like the... Ratte of the seas? Someting like that :playing:

Mr_Mistery, on 04 August 2013 - 04:31 PM, said: nice :great: :medal: Tnx :glasses:

Sivisoko, on 04 August 2013 - 04:31 PM, said: Brate al ti imas vremena :D Imam koliko hoces :D

Freiherr_von_Keks, on 04 August 2013 - 02:41 PM, said: wow nice ship thx for the infos good post Smederevac :medal: Tnx Keks :honoring:

GJ keks

GJ Camiroq :honoring:

Nice tech tree you have here, nice job. :honoring:

Hugly, on 03 August 2013 - 11:18 AM, said: Thanks a lot for sharing the info... i got the "Mikasa" as a profile pic, because i was totally fascinated by the epic story of the battle of Tsushima, which might not be so well-known in Europe but was basic for the further developement of Japan and Russia. The russian fleet with the help of Germany crossed half oround the whole world, knowing well of the superior power of the Japanese Navy. For Germany it was a good opportunity to ged rid of the russian fleet in Europe, Japan proved to the whole world its military strength while the russian people was shown the weakness of their aristrocrat leaders... which in fact encouraged them for the later revolution. i really hope that one day i will be able to go to Japan to see this ship as an original... :honoring: I'm glad you like it :honoring: