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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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