Kasuga class cruiser

Kasuga class cruiser

The maximum speed, the design was slightly slower than contemporary cruisers, but was very heavily armed and also very heavily armored, in a package with very low displacement and moderate dimensions.

The class was unusual in that they did not have a uniform main armament. Some had single =

"Kasuga" was built by Ansaldo at Genoa, Italy. She was to be named "Mitra" but was renamed as "Rivadavia" by Argentina. Launched on 22 October 1902 and completed on the 7 January 1904, she served in the Russo-Japanese War and took part in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again at the Battle of Tsushima. After 1922, she was partially disarmed as part of the Washington Naval Treaty and used as a training ship until finally scrapped in 1948.


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"Nisshin" was also built by Ansaldo at Genoa. She was to be named "Roco" but was renamed as "Mariano Moreno" by Argentina. She was launched on 9 February 1903 and completed on the 7 January 1904. She served in the Russo-Japanese War and was severely damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again at the Battle of Tsushima. After 1922, as part of the Washington Naval Treaty she was partially disarmed and used as a training ship. "Nisshin" was finally expended as a target and sunk in 1936.

Afterwards

The success of the Japanese Navy in using armored cruisers in the line of battle during the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 drew considerable attention from navies and ship designers worldwide. The armored cruiser design soon evolved into the dreadnought armored cruiser and finally into the battlecruiser, which would be the most glamorous type of the world's warships until discredited at the Battle of Jutland, eleven years after Tsushima.

References

*"Conway's All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905"
*Delorme, Pierre, "Les Grandes Batailles de l'Histoire, Port-Arthur 1904", Socomer Editions (French)
*Dull, Paul S. (1978) "A Battle History of The Imperial Japanese Navy" ISBN 0-85059-295-X
*Gardiner, Robert (editor) (2001) "Steam, Steel and Shellfire, The Steam Warship 1815–1905", ISBN 0-7858-1413-2
*Kofman, V.L. "Armored Cruiser Type Garibaldi, Morskaya Kollektsia 3-1995"


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