JAPANESE NAVY
FIRST SQUADRON
Commander-in-Chief-Admiral BARON H. KAMIMURA Commander-Rear-Admiral T. NOMOTO
SECOND SQUADRON
Commander in chief-Vice-Admiral H. SHIMAMURA
THIRD SQUADRON
Commander - Rear-Admiral R. KAWASHIMA
TRAINING SQUADRON
Commander-Rear-Admiral R. YASHIRO
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..
Tons Displace. ment
19800 24000 28 19350 17300 28
15600 16400
41 13750 20500 34 15950 16000 39 14765 15207 50 15362 15207 14580
Indicated Number H. P. of Guns
Vessels
Tons Displace-
ment
Indicated' Number
H. I'. of Guns
Kasuga Nisshin
7700
14696
35
7700
14696
36
Soya (Varyag)...
Anegawa (Angara). Tsugaru (Pallada).
12500 11700
6630
11600 34
6500
20000
30
Mishima (Seniavin)
4960 6000
22
58
Kasagi
5503 17235
30
11700
58
Chitose
4992
15714 30
*Ibuki
14600 | 24000 31
Itsukushima
4278 5400
34
*Ikoma
13750
20500 34
*Hashidate....
4278
5400
34
Iwami (Orel).
13516 16500 56
Hizen (Retvian)
OkinoshimaApraxine| 4126
6000
29
12700
16000
36
Naniwa..
3709
7604
20
Fuji
Suo (Pobieda)
Sagani (Peresviet).. 12674
14500
58
Takachiho
3709
7604
20
12674 14500
58
*Niitaka
3420
9400
20
12649 13687
38
*Tsushima
3420
9400 20
Iwate
Tango (Poltava)
11000 10960
56
*Akitsushima
3172
8516
20
Idzumo
9826 9826 14700
14700
38
Suzuya (Novic)
3000
6000
19
38
*(tow
3000
10000
14
Asama.
9885 18248 38
Idzumi
2967
5576 16
Tokiwa
9885 18248
38
*Akashi
2800
8000
24
Yakumo
Iki (Nicolai)
9594 8000
34
*Suma
2700 8500
20
9735
.15500 36
Chiyoda
2-139
5678
27
'Adzuma
Chinyen
Aso (Bayan)
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.
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