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JAPANESE NAVY

FIRST SQUADRON

Commander in chief-Vice-Admiral BARON G. IJUIN

Commander Vice-Admiral H. YAMADA

SECOND SQUADRON

Commander in chief - Vice-Admiral BARON S. Dewa

THIRD SQUADRON Commander-Rear-Admiral I. TERAGAKI

TRAINING SQUADRON

Commander-Rear-Admiral H. IJICHI

The ships in commission or launched consist of 13 battleships; 13 1st class cruisers; 9 2nd class cruisers; 8 3rd class cruisers; 2 1st class coast defence ships; 2 2nd class coast defence ships; 7 3rd class coast defence ships; 4 2nd class gun boats; 8 despatch boats; 2 torpedo depot ships; 55 destroyers; 77 torpedo-boats and 7 submarines. The following is a list of the larger vessels of the Fleet :-

Vessels

*Aki *Satsuma

Kashima

*Tsukuba

Katori

Asahi

Mikasa

Shikishima.

*Ibuki

*Ikoma

Iwami (Orel).

Hizen (Retizan)

Sagami (Peresviet)

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Indicated Number H. P. of Guns

Tons Displace. ment

19800 24000 28 19350 17300 28

16400 15600 41 13750 20500 34 15950 16000 39 14765 15207 50 15362 15207 58 14580 14700 58 14600 24000 31 13750 20500 34 13516 16500 56 12700 16000 36 12674 14500 58 12674 14500 58 12649 13687 38 10960 11000 56 9826 14700 38 9826 14700 38 9885 18248 38 9885 18248 38 9594 8000 34

Kasuga Nisshin

Vessels

Anegawa (Angara) Tsugaru (Pallada) Soya (Varyag)....

Itsukushima *Hashidate..

Tons Displace-

ment

7700

Indicated Number Indicated

H. P. of Guns-

14696 35 7700 14696 36 11700 12500

6630 11600 34

6500 20000 30

Mishima (Seniavin) Kasagi Chitose

4960 6000 22

5503 17235 30

4992 15714 30

4278 5400 34

4278 5400 34

Okinoshima Apraxine

Naniwa.

4126 6000 29

Takachiho

20 3709

7604 3709 7604 20

Suo (Pobieda)

*Niitaka

3420 9400

20

Fuji

*Tsushima

3420 $400

20

Tango (Poltava)

*Akitsushima

3172 8516

20

Iwate

Suzuya, (Novic)

3000

6000

19

Idzumo

*Otowa

3000 10000

14

Asama

Idzumi

2967 5576

16

Tokiwa

*Akashi

2800 8000

24

Iki (Nicolai)

*Suma

2700 8500

20

Yakumo

9735 15500 36

Chiyoda

2439 5678

27

Adzuma

Aso (Bayan) Chinyen

9426 16600 36 *Mogami...

1350 8000

7800 17000 34

*Yayeyama

1609 5400

9

7335 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.