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Name: KASHIMA
Type: Battleship
Keel: 29/02/1904
Launched: 22/03/1905
Completed: 31/05/1906
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 755
Dimensions: 16383disp, 425.0 x 78.2 x 26.6(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x VT4cyl (36, 56 & 63, 63 x 48ins), 15600ihp
Engines by: Humphrys Tennant & Co, Deptford
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 18.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 12.0ins, 4 x 1 x 10.0ins, 12 x 1 x 6.0ins QF, 12 x 1 x 12pdr, 3 x 1 x 3pdr QF guns;
5 x 18.0ins torpedoes (1 x aft, 2 x 2 x broadside)
History:
31/05/1906 Imperial Japanese Navy
11/1924 Broken up
Comments: 20/09/1923: Stricken under the terms of the Washington Treaty
11/1924: Broken up at Nagasaki


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Above layout from Brassey's Naval Annual of 1921