Smederevac94

Awesome mr3awsome, nice to see some ship of the Spanish Navy! :honoring:

Schultz, on 12 June 2013 - 10:16 AM, said: That last ship has a strange design. It looks it borrowed a few things from the japanese designs. These ships in last two pics is N3-Class Battleship and G3 Battlecruiser Source: N3 http://en.wikipedia....lass_battleship G3 http://en.wikipedia....3_battlecruiser G3 Model: http://www.shipmodel...hp?f=47&t=35041

beemerhead, on 12 June 2013 - 11:03 AM, said: Very nice looking ship. :eyesup: Found a nice pic of it from different angle :honoring: Nice...thanks!

Stick, on 12 June 2013 - 05:25 AM, said: Nice ship, totally loved it in NF. Me too.

grizzlyfish, on 12 June 2013 - 06:11 AM, said: nice that its still here and not decommissioned Yeap.

krille95, on 12 June 2013 - 07:57 AM, said: Glad to see she is a museum ship :smiles: And I have to ask and it may sound a bit silly but what is a pre-dreadnought? Yes, Mikasa is the last remaining example of a pre-dreadnought battleship anywhere in the world.

Sorry about this thing multi-posting and enjoy!!! :honoring:

Career: Mikasa, named after Mount Mikasa,was laid down by Vickers at their Barrow-in-Furness shipyard on 24 January 1899. She was launched on 8 November 1900 and completed on 1 March 1902.At the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Mikasa, commanded by Captain Hikojirō Ijichi, was assigned to the 1st Division of the 1st Fleet. She participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on 9 February 1904 when Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō led the 1st Fleet in an attack on the Russian ships of the Pacific Squadron anchored just outside of Port Arthur. Tōgō had expected his surprise night attack on the Russians by his destroyers to be much more successful than it actually was and expected to find them badly disorganized and weakened, but the Russians had recovered from their surprise and were ready for his attack. The Japanese ships were spotted by the Boyarin which was patrolling offshore and alerted the Russian defences. Tōgō chose to attack the Russian coastal defences with his main armament and engage the Russian ships with his secondary guns. Splitting his fire proved to be a bad idea as the Japanese 8-inch (203 mm) and six-inch guns inflicted very little significant damage on the Russian ships who concentrated all their fire on the Japanese ships with some effect. Although a large number of ships on both sides were hit, Russian casualties numbered only 17 while the Japanese suffered 60 killed and wounded before Tōgō disengaged. Mikasa was hit by two ten-inch shells during the engagement that wounded seven crewmen. The ship participated in the action of 13 April when Tōgō successfully lured out a portion of the Pacific Squadron, including Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov's flagship, the battleship Petropavlovsk. When Makarov spotted the five battleships of the 1st Division, he turned back for Port Arthur and Petropavlovsk struck a minefield laid by the Japanese the previous night. The Russian battleship sank in less than two minutes after one of her magazines exploded, Makarov one of the 677 killed. Emboldened by his success, Tōgō resumed long-range bombardment missions, which prompted the Russians to lay more minefields which sank two Japanese battleships the following month. During the Battle of the Yellow Sea on 10 August, Mikasa was at the head of the column of Japanese battleships and was one of the primary targets of the Russian ships. She was hit twenty times, two of the hits knocked out her aft 12-inch gun turret, and suffered 125 casualties among her crew. In turn she concentrated most of her fire upon the battleships Poltava and Tsesarevich although both ships were only lightly damaged by the Japanese shells which generally failed to penetrate any armour and detonated on impact. Battle of Tsushima: At the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905, Mikasa again led the 1st Fleet into combat, this time against the Second and Third Pacific Squadrons detached from the Baltic Fleet. The ship opened fire at the battleship Knyaz Suvorov, the Russian flagship, at 1410, and was joined by the battleship Asahi and the armoured cruiser Azuma shortly afterwards. Within an hour the Japanese ships had started a serious fire aboard the Russian ship, badly wounded the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, knocked out her rear 12-inch gun turret, and jammed Knyaz Suvorov's steering so that she fell out of formation. During this time, Mikasa was the focus of the Russian fire as the leading ship in the Japanese column and was hit by six 12-inch and 19 six-inch shells. They did very little damage and Tōgō was able to cross the T of the Russian squadrons. Knyaz Suvorov's steering was later repaired, but she blundered between the Japanese and Russian fleets several times later in the battle and Mikasa fired three torpedoes at her to no avail. Later in the battle, the ship appears to have fired mostly on the battleship Borodino although Fuji fired the shots that caused the Russian ship's magazines to explode and sink her. At 1804 a 12-inch shell detonated prematurely in the barrel of the right gun of the forward turret, disabling the gun and knocking out the left gun until 1840. Another 12-inch shell had exploded in that same barrel almost two hours earlier, but had not damaged the gun. One six-inch gun jammed after firing 19 rounds, but the only other damage to any of the ship's guns was one six-inch gun that was disabled by a Russian six-inch shell that entered through the gunport. She fired 124 twelve-inch shells during the battle, more than any other ship except Asahi's 142. In total, Mikasa was hit more than 40 times during the battle, including 10 twelve-inch and 22 six-inch shells, but none of them seriously damaged her.While Mikasa's casualties are not precisely known, the Japanese only lost 110 men killed and 590 wounded to all causes during the battle. Admiral Tōgō on the bridge of the Mikasa, before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 Six days after the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the war was signed, Mikasa sank at her moorings after a fire and magazine explosion at Sasebo on the night of 11/12 September 1905 that killed 251 crewmen. She was refloated on 7 August 1906, reconstructed and repaired at Sasebo Naval Arsenal. The navy took the opportunity to upgrade her existing armament with more powerful 45-calibre 12-inch and six-inch guns during the two years it took to repair the ship. Mikasa was restored to active service on 24 August 1908. During World War I, she served on coastal-defence duties, based at Maizuru, during 1914–15 and was then assigned to the Second and Fifth Squadrons, in that order, for the rest of the war. The ship supported the Japanese intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War during 1921 and was reclassified on 1 September 1921 as a first class coastal defence ship. On 17 September, Mikasa ran aground near Askold Island off Vladivostok, but was not seriously damaged. Preservation: The ship was decommissioned on 23 September 1923 following the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and scheduled for destruction. However, at the request of the Japanese government, each of the signatory countries to the treaty agreed that Mikasa could be preserved as a memorial ship. On 12 November 1926, Mikasa was opened for display in Yokosuka in the presence of the Crown Prince, Prince Hirohito and Tōgō. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, the ship deteriorated, but was restored after another campaign led by the Japan Times and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz that allowed the ship to reopen in 1961. 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) Installed power: 15,000 shp (11,000 kW), 25 Belleville boilers 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 Armament: 2 × 2 – 12 in (305 mm) guns 14 × 1 – 6 in (152 mm) QF guns 20 × 1 – 12-pounder guns 6 × 1 – 3-pounder guns 6 × 1 – 2.5-pounder Hotchkiss guns 4 × 18-inch torpedo tubes Armour: Krupp cemented armour Belt: 4–9 in (102–229 mm) D eck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Gun turrets: 8–10 in (203–254 mm) Barbettes: 8–14 in (203–356 mm) Conning tower: 4–14 in (102–356 mm) Casemates: 2–6 in (51–152 mm)

Well done man! :playing:

krille95, on 10 June 2013 - 07:22 AM, said: She is a fine vessel hopes she are in the game. Thanks Smederevac94 :medal: :honoring: :great: We will seen sone.... :honoring: :playing:

painless, on 10 June 2013 - 05:00 AM, said: For me Dingač, '96 And one case for You, Smederevac94 for providing awesome read material! Thank you very much.

Steiner011, on 09 June 2013 - 10:10 PM, said: Fine reading as usual, with a glass of red wine :great: Thanks man, from which year is a wine? :glasses:

Jann336, on 08 June 2013 - 11:24 AM, said: Thanks Smederevac, nice post. Thanks Jann.

krille95, on 07 June 2013 - 04:39 PM, said: So many ships I have never heard of. Thank you for sharing :honoring: :honoring: :honoring: You're welcome. :honoring:

Burnsyy, on 07 June 2013 - 01:50 PM, said: Thanks :) i think this will be a good ship if i find any more i might post them :D do you think i sould do a post about Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier? Why not...It would be good.

phoenixkimi, on 07 June 2013 - 02:23 PM, said: That's a very nice piece of steel! would love to see that and try it in game even as premium! +1 from me :3 Thanks mate, me too. :eyesup: :playing:

Stealth ship :hiding: ...I like it +1 from me, keep up the good work.

NelsonXes, on 07 June 2013 - 06:21 AM, said: very good post, always loved the rich history behind this ship :honoring: +1 from me Thanks, I'm glad you like it. :honoring:

qwerty999, on 06 June 2013 - 07:11 PM, said: Do you type these long texts yourself or do you copy them from somewhere? Anyway, nice work. :great: Thanks, sometimes I write and sometimes I copy from wiki and other sites.

D3ATHBR1NG3R96, on 06 June 2013 - 06:57 PM, said: Just a heads up, I'm going to do one on HMS Belfast after my exams. ;) Good luck. :honoring:

Schultz, on 06 June 2013 - 06:40 PM, said: Unfortunately you wrote about almost every warship. I think I'll wait for Alpha where I can really kick-off with my helping activity. Me?

Schultz, on 06 June 2013 - 05:57 PM, said: Nice. Thanks. You're welcome man.

Here you go:

Schultz, on 06 June 2013 - 05:41 PM, said: You were really busy. 1128 posts :amazed: Do they have a 3D model of Bismarck? I'm very busy, I think I saw somewhere Bismarck too.

Schultz, on 06 June 2013 - 04:26 PM, said: Very nice 3D Model. Thanks, this 3d model of USS Arizona is from this book. You can buy this in store. :honoring: