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IJN Mikasa

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Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Togo Heihachiro throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the war, Mikasa's magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. Afterwards, the ship served as a coast-defence ship during World War I and supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War. After 1922, Mikasa was decommissioned in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty and preserved as a museum ship at Yokosuka. She was badly neglected during the post-World War II Occupation of Japan and required extensive refurbishing in the late 1950s. She has been partially restored, and is now a museum ship located at Mikasa Park in Yokosuka. Mikasa is the last remaining example of a pre-dreadnought battleship anywhere in the world and also the last example of a British-built battleship.

General Characteristics

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  • Wingspan 81.0ft (24.7m)
  • Length 432.5ft (131.8m)
  • Height 208.1ft (63.4m)
  • Empty Weight 243,980lbs (110,667kg)
  • Loaded Weight 423,739lbs (192,205kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.034
  • Wing Loading 20,995.6lbs/ft2 (102,509.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 20.2ft2 (1.9m2)
  • Drag Points 317163

Parts

  • Number of Parts 244
  • Control Surfaces 1
  • Performance Cost 649