Tsushima (ship, 1902)

Tsushima

The Tsushima

Ship data flag  Japan Ship type Protected cruiser class Niitaka class Shipyard Kure Naval Shipyard , Japanese Empire Order 1897 Keel laying October 1, 1901 Launch December 15, 1902 Commissioning February 14, 1904 Whereabouts Sunk as a target ship in 1944

Ship dimensions and crew length 102 m ( KWL ) width 13.44 m Draft Max. 4.92 m displacement 3,366 tn.l.   crew 287-320 men

Machine system machine 16 steam boilers , 2 compound steam engines Machine performance 9,500 hp (6,987 kW) Top speed 20 kn (37 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 6 × QF 6 inch / 40 naval gun 10 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun 4 × QF 3 pounders Hotchkiss Armor Armored deck: 76 mm Gun shields: 100 mm Command post:

The Tsushima ( Japanese 対 馬 ) was a Niitaka-class armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy . Her sister ship was the Niitaka . The ship was named after the province of Tsushima .

Construction and technical data

You and a month earlier by stacking spilled Niikata are commonly known as sister ships referred, and in most cases from the Niitaka occasional class and from the Tsushima spoken class. The two ships, built almost simultaneously but by two different Japanese shipyards , were very similar, if not almost identical. The Niitaka- class was the second-class cruiser to be entirely built in Japan.

Mission history

Russo-Japanese War

The Tsushima , 1904

The Tsushima was taken into service during the Russo-Japanese War 1904–05. On June 15, 1904, the Independent Cruiser Squadron Vladivostok sighted them , but it was too late to prevent the Hitachi-Maru incident , which ended with the sinking of two transport ships and the loss of over 1,300 sailors and soldiers. After the battle in the Yellow Sea , she sighted the Russian cruiser Novik on August 11, 1904 , which led to a sea ​​battle off Korsakow . Although the Tsushima got two hits below the waterline and ran two divisions full of water, she could see the Nowik hold out until the cruiser Chitose came to the rescue and the Nowik be scuttled .

In the naval battle of Tsushima in May 1905, the Tsushima was one of the four cruisers of the 3rd Division of the First Squadron that dueled with the Russian cruisers Oleg , Aurora and Shemchug .

Interwar years

It remained in service after the war but was disarmed in the 1920s. After that she served as a training ship.

The End

In 1944, the Tsushima was sunk as a target ship during an exercise with torpedoes .

Web links

Commons : Niitaka class  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

literature

• Kowner, Rotem (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow, ISBN 0-8108-4927-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kowner, p. 391