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Katori (Schiff, 1906)

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Vorlage:Nihongo was the lead ship of the two Vorlage:Sclass- pre-dreadnought battleships built in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, the ship was completed a year after its end. She saw no combat during World War I, although the ship was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Katori was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1925 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

Design and description

The Katori-class ships were ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 as improved versions of the Royal Navy’s Vorlage:Sclass-s.[1] Katori was Vorlage:Convert long overall and had a beam of Vorlage:Convert. She had a full-load draught of Vorlage:Convert and normally displaced Vorlage:Convert and had a crew of 864 officers and enlisted men. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines using steam generated by 20 Niclausse boilers. The engines were rated at Vorlage:Convert, using forced draught, and were designed to reach a top speed of Vorlage:Convert. Katori, however, reached a top speed of Vorlage:Convert from Vorlage:Convert on her sea trials. She carried a maximum of Vorlage:Convert of coal and Vorlage:Convert of fuel oil which was sprayed on the coal to increase their power. This allowed her to steam for Vorlage:Convert at a speed of Vorlage:Convert.[2]

The ship's main battery consisted of four 12-inch guns mounted in two twin-gun turrets, one forward and one aft. The secondary armament consisted of four 10-inch guns mounted in four single-gun turrets positioned on each side of the superstructure. Katori also carried twelve QF 6-inch guns, mounted in casemates on the sides of the hull and in the superstructure. A number of smaller guns were carried for defence against torpedo boats. These included a dozen 12-pounder guns and three Vorlage:Convert 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns. She was also armed with five submerged 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, two on each broadside and one in the stern.

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Construction and career

 
Battleship Katori side view
 
Battleship Katori stern

Katori, named for a Shinto shrine in Katori City, was ordered in January 1904 from Vickers.[3] The ship was laid down at their Barrow-in-Furness shipyard on 27 April 1904.[4] She was launched on 4 July 1905, Prince and Princess Arisugawa were on hand for the official launching ceremony.[5][6] and completed on 20 May 1906.[2] Katori departed Britain on 7 June on her maiden voyage and shakedown cruise and arrived at Yokosuka on 15 August.[7]

In a naval review off Yokosuka on 10 November 1913, she served as the flagship for the Taishō Emperor.[8] Katori occupied the German colony of Saipan, shortly after the start of World War I, on 14 October 1914.[9] Afterward the ship began a refit in 1914 that lasted until late 1916 and was assigned to the 2nd Battleship Squadron upon its completion.[10] During this refit, two 12-pounder anti-aircraft guns were replaced two of the low-angle 12-pounders.[1] She became the flagship of the 5th Battleship Squadron in 1917–18 and served as the flagship for the Japanese commander-in-chief at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in late 1918 as Japan decided to intervene in the Russian Civil War.[10]

On 3 March 1921, Katori, escorted by Kashima, departed Yokohama bound for Great Britain carrying Crown Prince Hirohito, the first Japanese crown prince to travel abroad. The ships arrived at Portsmouth on 9 May and Hirohito left the ship to tour Europe; he boarded the battleship again in Naples several months later for the voyage home.[11] The ship was disarmed in April 1922,[1] stricken from the Navy List on 20 September 1923 and scrapped at Maizuru Naval Arsensal by 29 January 1925 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.[3] Her guns were turned over to the Imperial Japanese Army for use as coastal artillery; one main-gun turret was emplaced near Tokyo Bay in 1925–1932 and another was installed on Iki Island in the Strait of Tsushima in 1929.[12] The remaining guns were placed in reserve and ultimately scrapped in 1943.[13]

Notes

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References

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  • Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland 1985, ISBN 0-87021-907-3.
  • Jay Gibbs: Question 28/43: Japanese Ex-Naval Coast Defense Guns. In: Warship International. XLVII. Jahrgang, Nr. 3, 2010, ISSN 0043-0374, S. 217–218.
  • Jay Gibbs, Toshio Tamura: Question 51/80. In: Warship International. XIX. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, 1982, ISSN 0043-0374, S. 190, 194–195.
  • Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, Peter Mickel: Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland 1977, ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
  • Hans Lengerer: Japanese Battleships and Battlecruisers - Part III. In: Contributions to the History of Imperial Japanese Warships. Nr. VI, März 2009, S. 7–55.
  • Hans Lengerer, Lars Ahlberg: Capital Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868–1945: Ironclads, Battleships and Battle Cruisers: An Outline History of Their Design, Construction and Operations. Volume I: Armourclad Fusō to Kongō Class Battle Cruisers. Despot Infinitus, Zagreb, Croatia 2019, ISBN 978-953-8218-26-2.
  • Mark R. Peattie: Nan'yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia 1885–1945 (= Pacific Island Monograph Series. Band 4). University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii 1988, ISBN 0-8248-1480-0.
  • Antony Preston: Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Battleships of All Nations 1914–1918. Galahad Books, New York 1972, ISBN 0-88365-300-1.
  • Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave: The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family. Broadway Books, New York 1999 (archive.org).
  • Paul H. Silverstone: Directory of the World's Capital Ships. Hippocrene Books, New York 1984, ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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  1. ↑ a b c d Gardiner & Gray, p. 227
  2. ↑ a b Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 22
  3. ↑ a b Brook, p. 282
  4. ↑ Silverstone, p. 332
  5. ↑ New Japanese Battleship In: New York Times, New York Times Co., 5 July 1905. Abgerufen im 11 June 2013 
  6. ↑ The Launching of the Japanese Battleship "Katori". In: Hepworth Manufacturing Company. British Film Institute, archiviert vom Original am 22. Februar 2014; abgerufen am 11. Juni 2013.
  7. ↑ Lengerer, p. 46
  8. ↑ J. Charles Schenking: Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and Japan's Southern Advance: The Imperial Navy's Seizure of German Micronesia in the First World War. In: War in History. 5. Jahrgang, Nr. 3, 1998, ISSN 0968-3445, S. 318, doi:10.1177/096834459800500303.
  9. ↑ Peattie, p. 43
  10. ↑ a b Preston, p. 191
  11. ↑ Seagrave & Seagrave, pp. 105–110
  12. ↑ Gibbs, p. 217
  13. ↑ Gibbs & Tamura, pp. 192, 194
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