JAPANESE NAVY
FIRST SQUADRON
Commander in chief-Vice-Admiral S. ARIMA Commander-Rear-Admiral S. YOSHIMATSU
SECOND SQUADRON
Commander in chief-Vice-Admiral G. IJUIN Commander-Rear-Admiral L. TERAGAKI
SOUTH CHINA SQUADRON
Commander-Rear-Admiral TAMARI
The ships in commission or launched consist of 12 battleships; 12 armoured cruisers, 18 protected cruisers; 4 armoured coast defence ships; 47 torpedo-boat destroyers; 5 despatch boats; 78 torpedo-boats and 7 submarines. The following is a list of the larger vessels of the Fleet:-
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Indicated Number H. P. of Guns
Vessels
Tons Displace. ment
Indicated Number H. P. of Guns
Vessels
Tona Displace.
ment
*Aki *Satsuma.
18000
Kasuga
7628
...
18000 3000
Nisshin
7398
Kashima
16400 15600 35
Tsukuba
16000 20000 30
Katori
Asahi
Mikasa
Shikishima
*Ibuki
15200 15207 50 15140 15207 50 14850 14700 50 14000
*Tsukuba
13750
*Ikamo
Iwami (Orel)
Hizen (Retuzan)
Sagami (Peresvict) Suð (Pobieda) Fuji
Tango (Poltava)
13700
13516 16000 18 12902 16000
12674 14500 35 12674 14500
12533 13687 38
Naniwa...
Takachiho
Hashidate...
15950 16000 35
Anegawa (Angara)... 7020 Tsugaru (Pallada)..
24
Soya (Varyag).........! 6500 10000 Minoshima(Seniavin)| 4960 5000 18
Kasagi
Chitose
Itsukushima
4900 17235 30 4760 15714 30 4210 5400 23 4210 5400 23
4210
5400 24
4126 5757 17
6731
11610 32
Matsushima.
Okinoshima Apraxine
3650 7604 20
3650
7604
20
Niitaka
3366
9400
20
Tsushima
3366 $400 20
10963
11255
Iwate....
9773 14700 38
Idzumo
9733 14700
Asama
9700 18248 38
Tokiwa
9700 18248
Iki (Nicolai).
9594
Yakumo
Adzuma
9695 15500 36 9326 16600
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Akitsushima
3159 8516 20
Suzuya (Novic)
3080
38
*Otowa
3000
1000 14
Idzumi
2987 5576 16
38
*Akashi
2755 8000
*Suma
2657
8500 20
Chiyoda
2450
5678 26
36 Megami..
2300
...
Aso (Bayan).
7726
17400 34
*Yayeyama
1584
5400 11
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20
Chinyen
7670
6000 20
The ships with names in italics against them are ships captured from the Russians. An asterisk indicates that the ships were built in Japanese yards,
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