Asahi Class
Basically the same as the Skikishima
class battle ships except Asahi only had two funnels instead of three.
Built in Scotland at J. browns at Clydebank, and laid down on the 1st
august 1898, launched 13th march 1899 and completed 31st July 1900. she
saw action during the Russo-Japanese war. she was badly damaged after striking
a mine on the 26th October 1904 and was re paired in time for the battle
of Tsushima where she received several hits which killed 8 with another 23
wounded. She was re assigned to a gunnery training ship at the start of
World war One and was disarmed under the Washington treaty of 1923. IN
1926 she was converted into a Submarine salvage ship at the Kure Naval
Dockyard. put into reserve during the 1930's but in 1938 brought back into
service as a repair ship. On the 25th may 1942, she was torpedoed and sunk
by the American submarine USS Salmon southwest of Cape Paderas, French
Indo-China
Displacement: 15,000 tons
and 15,374 tons full load. Speed: 18 knots. Compliment:
836
Armament: Four 12-inch Guns in two turrets Fourteen 6 -inch guns and
Twenty 12 pdr QF guns Six - 3 pdr and Six 2.5 pdr Four
18th Torpedo Tubes
