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Shikishima-class battleship

March 04, 2023

The Shikishima class (敷島型戦艦, Shikishima-gata senkan) was a two-ship class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, they were designed and built in the UK. The ships participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Hatsuse sank after striking two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904. Shikishima fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action, although shells prematurely exploded in the barrels of her main guns in each battle. The ship was reclassified as a coast defence ship in 1921 and served as a training ship for the rest of her career. She was disarmed and hulked in 1923 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948.

Shikishima in 1905
Class overview
Operators Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded byFuji class
Succeeded byAsahi
Built1898–1901
In commission1900–1922
Completed2
Lost1
Scrapped1
General characteristics
TypePre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement14,850–15,000 long tons (15,088–15,241 t) (normal)
Length438 ft (133.5 m)
Beam75.5–76.75 ft (23.0–23.4 m)
Draught27–27.25 ft (8.2–8.3 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement
Armament
Armour

Design and description

Combat experience in the First Sino-Japanese War convinced the Imperial Japanese Navy of weaknesses in the Jeune Ecole naval philosophy, and Japan embarked on a program to modernize and expand its fleet. As with the earlier Fuji-class battleships, Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships, and turned again to the United Kingdom. They were ordered as part of the Ten Year Naval Expansion Programme and paid for from the £30,000,000 indemnity paid by China after losing the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895.[1]

 
Left elevation and deck plan as depicted in Jane's Fighting Ships 1906

The design of the Shikishima class was a modified and improved version of the Majestic-class battleships of the Royal Navy. They had the same armament and similar machinery as the Fuji class which was intended to allow them to work together as a homogenous group.[2] The Shikishima-class ships had an overall length of 412 feet (125.6 m), a beam of 75.5–76.75 feet (23.0–23.4 m), and a normal draught of 26.25–26.5 feet (8.0–8.1 m). They displaced 14,850–15,000 long tons (15,090–15,240 t) at normal load.[1] The hull had a double bottom and was subdivided into 261 watertight compartments.[2] The crew numbered about 741 officers and ratings,[3] although this increased to 849 when serving as a flagship.[1]

Propulsion

The ships were powered by two Humphrys Tennant vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller, using steam generated by 25 Belleville boilers. The engines were rated at 14,500 indicated horsepower (10,800 kW), using forced draught, and designed to reach a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[1] although they proved to be faster during their sea trials. Shikishima reached a speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) using 14,667 indicated horsepower (10,937 kW).[4] The ships carried a maximum of 1,643 tonnes (1,617 long tons)[1] of coal which allowed them to steam for 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).[3]

Armament

 
Right elevation of 12 inch gun turret & ammunition hoists

The main battery of the Shikishima class consisted of the same four Elswick Ordnance Company 40-calibre twelve-inch guns as used in the Fuji class. They were mounted in twin-gun barbettes fore and aft of the superstructure that had armoured hoods to protect the guns and were usually called gun turrets. The hydraulically powered mountings could be loaded at all angles of traverse while the guns were loaded at a fixed angle of +13.5°.[5] They fired 850-pound (386 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,400 ft/s (730 m/s).[6]

Secondary armament of the Shikishima class consisted of fourteen 40-calibre Type 41 six-inch quick-firing guns mounted in casemates. Eight of these guns were positioned on the main deck on the side of the ship's hull and the other six guns were placed in the superstructure.[7] They fired 100-pound (45 kg) shells at a muzzle velocity of 2,300 ft/s (700 m/s).[8] Protection against torpedo boat attacks was provided by twenty QF 12-pounder 12 cwt[Note 1] guns and four 47-millimetre (1.9 in) 2.5-pounder Hotchkiss guns.[1] The 12-pounders fired 3-inch (76 mm), 12.5-pound (5.7 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,359 ft/s (719 m/s).[9] The ships were also equipped with four submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes, two on each broadside.[1]

Armour

The waterline main belt of the Shikishima-class vessels consisted of Harvey armour 8 feet (2.4 m) high, 3 feet 7 inches (1.1 m) of which was above the waterline at normal load, and had a maximum thickness of 9 inches (229 mm) for the middle 220 feet (67 m) of the ship. It was only 4 inches (102 mm) thick at the ends of the ship and was surmounted by a six-inch strake of armor that ran between the barbettes for 220 feet. The barbettes were 14 inches (356 mm) thick, but reduced to 10 inches (254 mm) at the level of the lower deck. The armour of the barbette hoods had a maximum thickness of 10 inches (254 mm) while their roofs were three inches thick. Diagonal bulkheads 12–14 inches (305–356 mm) thick connected the barbettes to the side armor, but the bulkheads were only six inches thick at the lower deck level. The casemates protecting the secondary armament were also six inches thick. The flat portion of the deck armour was 2.5 inches (64 mm) thick and four inches thick[10] where it sloped down to the bottom of the armour belt. This significantly improved the ships' protection as any shell that penetrated their vertical armour also had to penetrate the sloping deck before it could reach the machinery compartments or magazines.[2] Outside the central armoured citadel, the sloped deck had a thickness of 2 inches (51 mm). The forward conning tower was protected by 14 inches of armour, but the aft conning tower only had three inches of armour.[1]

Ships

Construction data
Ship Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Fate
Shikishima Thames Iron Works, Leamouth, London 29 March 1897[11] 1 November 1898[11] 26 January 1900[11] Broken up, January 1948[11]
Hatsuse Armstrong, Elswick 10 January 1898[1] 27 June 1899[1] 18 January 1901[1] Sank 15 May 1904 after hitting two mines[12]

At the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Hatsuse and Shikishima were assigned to the 1st Division of the 1st Fleet. They participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on 9 February 1904 when Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō led the 1st Fleet in an attack on the Russian ships of the Pacific Squadron anchored just outside Port Arthur. Tōgō chose to attack the Russian coastal defences with his main armament and engage the Russian ships with his secondary guns. Splitting his fire proved to be a bad idea as the Japanese 8-inch (203 mm) and six-inch guns inflicted very little damage on the Russian ships who concentrated all their fire on the Japanese ships with some effect. Hatsuse was hit twice during the battle, 10 men being killed and 17 wounded, but Shikishima was only hit once with 17 men wounded.[13]

Both ships participated in the action of 13 April when Tōgō successfully lured out two battleships of the Pacific Squadron. When the Russians spotted the five battleships of the 1st Division, they turned back for Port Arthur and the battleship Petropavlovsk struck a minefield laid by the Japanese the previous night. It sank in less than two minutes after one of her magazines exploded. Emboldened by his success, Tōgō resumed long-range bombardment missions, which prompted the Russians to lay more minefields.[14]

On 14 May, Hatsuse, Shikishima, and the battleship Yashima, the protected cruiser Kasagi, and the dispatch boat Tatsuta put to sea to relieve the Japanese blockading force off Port Arthur.[15] On the following morning, the squadron encountered a newly laid Russian minefield. Hatsuse struck one mine that disabled her steering and Yashima struck another when moving to assist Hatsuse.[16] Hatsuse struck another mine while drifting about a half-hour later that detonated one of her magazines and the ship sank in a little over a minute.[17] The catastrophe claimed 496 crewmen although the escorting ships were able to rescue 336 men.[16]

Shikishima was not hit during the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August, although a shell exploded prematurely in one of her 12-inch guns, disabling it.[18] During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was hit nine times; the most serious of which penetrated beneath a six-inch gun, killing or wounding the entire gun crew. Again the ship had another 12-inch shell prematurely detonate in one of the forward guns, wrecking it completely.[19] Shikishima was reclassified as a first-class coast defence ship in September 1921,[2] and was used for training duties in various capacities until disarmed and reclassified as a transport in 1923. Her hulk continued to be used as a training ship until she was scrapped in 1948.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Brook 1999, p. 125
  2. ^ a b c d Chesneau and Kolesnik, p. 221
  3. ^ a b Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 17
  4. ^ Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 18
  5. ^ Brook 1999, p. 126
  6. ^ Friedman, pp. 270–71
  7. ^ Brook 1985, p. 278
  8. ^ Friedman, pp. 275–76
  9. ^ Friedman, p. 114
  10. ^ Brook 1999, pp. 125–26
  11. ^ a b c d e Silverstone, p. 336
  12. ^ Silverstone, p. 328
  13. ^ Forczyk, pp. 41–44
  14. ^ Forczyk, pp. 45–46
  15. ^ Warner & Warner, p. 279
  16. ^ a b Forczyk, p. 46
  17. ^ Warner & Warner, pp. 279–82
  18. ^ Forczyk, pp. 51–52
  19. ^ Campbell, p. 263

References

  • Brook, Peter (1985). "Armstrong Battleships for Japan". Warship International. Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Research Organization. XXII (3): 268–82. ISSN 0043-0374.
  • Brook, Peter (1999). Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867 – 1927. Gravesend, Kent, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-89-4.
  • Campbell, N.J.M. (1978). "The Battle of Tsu-Shima". In Preston, Antony (ed.). Warship II. London: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 46–49, 127–135, 186–192, 258–265. ISBN 0-87021-976-6.
  • Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • Evans, David & Peattie, Mark R. (1997). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
  • Forczyk, Robert (2009). Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship, Yellow Sea 1904–05. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 978 1-84603-330-8.
  • Evans, David & Peattie, Mark R. (1997). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
  • Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
  • Hoare, J. E. (1999). Britain and Japan, Biographical Portraits, Volume III. Routledge. ISBN 1-873410-89-1.
  • Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
  • Lengerer, Hans & Ahlberg, Lars (2019). Capital Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868–1945: Ironclads, Battleships and Battle Cruisers: An Outline History of Their Design, Construction and Operations. Vol. I: Armourclad Fusō to Kongō Class Battle Cruisers. Zagreb, Croatia: Despot Infinitus. ISBN 978-953-8218-26-2.
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
  • Warner, Denis & Warner, Peggy (2002). The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905 (2nd ed.). London: Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-5256-3.

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The Shikishima class 敷島型戦艦 Shikishima gata senkan was a two ship class of pre dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself they were designed and built in the UK The ships participated in the Russo Japanese War of 1904 1905 including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war Hatsuse sank after striking two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904 Shikishima fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action although shells prematurely exploded in the barrels of her main guns in each battle The ship was reclassified as a coast defence ship in 1921 and served as a training ship for the rest of her career She was disarmed and hulked in 1923 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948 Shikishima in 1905Class overviewOperators Imperial Japanese NavyPreceded byFuji classSucceeded byAsahiBuilt1898 1901In commission1900 1922Completed2Lost1Scrapped1General characteristicsTypePre dreadnought battleshipDisplacement14 850 15 000 long tons 15 088 15 241 t normal Length438 ft 133 5 m Beam75 5 76 75 ft 23 0 23 4 m Draught27 27 25 ft 8 2 8 3 m Installed power25 Belleville boilers 14 500 ihp 10 800 kW Propulsion2 shafts 2 triple expansion steam enginesSpeed18 knots 33 km h 21 mph Range5 000 nmi 9 300 km 5 800 mi at 10 knots 19 km h 12 mph Complement741 849 as flagshipArmament2 twin 12 in 305 mm guns 14 single 6 in 152 mm guns 20 single 12 pdr 3 in 76 mm guns 8 single 3 pdr 1 9 in 47 mm guns 4 single 2 5 pdr 1 9 in 47 mm Hotchkiss guns 4 18 in 450 mm torpedo tubesArmourHarvey armour Belt 4 9 in 102 229 mm Deck 2 5 4 in 64 102 mm Gun turrets 10 in 254 mm Conning tower 3 14 in 76 356 mm Bulkheads 6 14 in 152 356 mm Contents 1 Design and description 1 1 Propulsion 1 2 Armament 1 3 Armour 2 Ships 3 Notes 4 Footnotes 5 References 6 External linksDesign and description EditCombat experience in the First Sino Japanese War convinced the Imperial Japanese Navy of weaknesses in the Jeune Ecole naval philosophy and Japan embarked on a program to modernize and expand its fleet As with the earlier Fuji class battleships Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships and turned again to the United Kingdom They were ordered as part of the Ten Year Naval Expansion Programme and paid for from the 30 000 000 indemnity paid by China after losing the Sino Japanese War of 1894 1895 1 Left elevation and deck plan as depicted in Jane s Fighting Ships 1906 The design of the Shikishima class was a modified and improved version of the Majestic class battleships of the Royal Navy They had the same armament and similar machinery as the Fuji class which was intended to allow them to work together as a homogenous group 2 The Shikishima class ships had an overall length of 412 feet 125 6 m a beam of 75 5 76 75 feet 23 0 23 4 m and a normal draught of 26 25 26 5 feet 8 0 8 1 m They displaced 14 850 15 000 long tons 15 090 15 240 t at normal load 1 The hull had a double bottom and was subdivided into 261 watertight compartments 2 The crew numbered about 741 officers and ratings 3 although this increased to 849 when serving as a flagship 1 Propulsion Edit The ships were powered by two Humphrys Tennant vertical triple expansion steam engines each driving one propeller using steam generated by 25 Belleville boilers The engines were rated at 14 500 indicated horsepower 10 800 kW using forced draught and designed to reach a top speed of 18 knots 33 km h 21 mph 1 although they proved to be faster during their sea trials Shikishima reached a speed of 19 knots 35 km h 22 mph using 14 667 indicated horsepower 10 937 kW 4 The ships carried a maximum of 1 643 tonnes 1 617 long tons 1 of coal which allowed them to steam for 5 000 nautical miles 9 300 km 5 800 mi at a speed of 10 knots 19 km h 12 mph 3 Armament Edit Right elevation of 12 inch gun turret amp ammunition hoists The main battery of the Shikishima class consisted of the same four Elswick Ordnance Company 40 calibre twelve inch guns as used in the Fuji class They were mounted in twin gun barbettes fore and aft of the superstructure that had armoured hoods to protect the guns and were usually called gun turrets The hydraulically powered mountings could be loaded at all angles of traverse while the guns were loaded at a fixed angle of 13 5 5 They fired 850 pound 386 kg projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2 400 ft s 730 m s 6 Secondary armament of the Shikishima class consisted of fourteen 40 calibre Type 41 six inch quick firing guns mounted in casemates Eight of these guns were positioned on the main deck on the side of the ship s hull and the other six guns were placed in the superstructure 7 They fired 100 pound 45 kg shells at a muzzle velocity of 2 300 ft s 700 m s 8 Protection against torpedo boat attacks was provided by twenty QF 12 pounder 12 cwt Note 1 guns and four 47 millimetre 1 9 in 2 5 pounder Hotchkiss guns 1 The 12 pounders fired 3 inch 76 mm 12 5 pound 5 7 kg projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2 359 ft s 719 m s 9 The ships were also equipped with four submerged 18 inch torpedo tubes two on each broadside 1 Armour Edit The waterline main belt of the Shikishima class vessels consisted of Harvey armour 8 feet 2 4 m high 3 feet 7 inches 1 1 m of which was above the waterline at normal load and had a maximum thickness of 9 inches 229 mm for the middle 220 feet 67 m of the ship It was only 4 inches 102 mm thick at the ends of the ship and was surmounted by a six inch strake of armor that ran between the barbettes for 220 feet The barbettes were 14 inches 356 mm thick but reduced to 10 inches 254 mm at the level of the lower deck The armour of the barbette hoods had a maximum thickness of 10 inches 254 mm while their roofs were three inches thick Diagonal bulkheads 12 14 inches 305 356 mm thick connected the barbettes to the side armor but the bulkheads were only six inches thick at the lower deck level The casemates protecting the secondary armament were also six inches thick The flat portion of the deck armour was 2 5 inches 64 mm thick and four inches thick 10 where it sloped down to the bottom of the armour belt This significantly improved the ships protection as any shell that penetrated their vertical armour also had to penetrate the sloping deck before it could reach the machinery compartments or magazines 2 Outside the central armoured citadel the sloped deck had a thickness of 2 inches 51 mm The forward conning tower was protected by 14 inches of armour but the aft conning tower only had three inches of armour 1 Ships EditConstruction data Ship Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned FateShikishima Thames Iron Works Leamouth London 29 March 1897 11 1 November 1898 11 26 January 1900 11 Broken up January 1948 11 Hatsuse Armstrong Elswick 10 January 1898 1 27 June 1899 1 18 January 1901 1 Sank 15 May 1904 after hitting two mines 12 At the start of the Russo Japanese War Hatsuse and Shikishima were assigned to the 1st Division of the 1st Fleet They participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on 9 February 1904 when Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō led the 1st Fleet in an attack on the Russian ships of the Pacific Squadron anchored just outside Port Arthur Tōgō chose to attack the Russian coastal defences with his main armament and engage the Russian ships with his secondary guns Splitting his fire proved to be a bad idea as the Japanese 8 inch 203 mm and six inch guns inflicted very little damage on the Russian ships who concentrated all their fire on the Japanese ships with some effect Hatsuse was hit twice during the battle 10 men being killed and 17 wounded but Shikishima was only hit once with 17 men wounded 13 Both ships participated in the action of 13 April when Tōgō successfully lured out two battleships of the Pacific Squadron When the Russians spotted the five battleships of the 1st Division they turned back for Port Arthur and the battleship Petropavlovsk struck a minefield laid by the Japanese the previous night It sank in less than two minutes after one of her magazines exploded Emboldened by his success Tōgō resumed long range bombardment missions which prompted the Russians to lay more minefields 14 On 14 May Hatsuse Shikishima and the battleship Yashima the protected cruiser Kasagi and the dispatch boat Tatsuta put to sea to relieve the Japanese blockading force off Port Arthur 15 On the following morning the squadron encountered a newly laid Russian minefield Hatsuse struck one mine that disabled her steering and Yashima struck another when moving to assist Hatsuse 16 Hatsuse struck another mine while drifting about a half hour later that detonated one of her magazines and the ship sank in a little over a minute 17 The catastrophe claimed 496 crewmen although the escorting ships were able to rescue 336 men 16 Shikishima was not hit during the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August although a shell exploded prematurely in one of her 12 inch guns disabling it 18 During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 she was hit nine times the most serious of which penetrated beneath a six inch gun killing or wounding the entire gun crew Again the ship had another 12 inch shell prematurely detonate in one of the forward guns wrecking it completely 19 Shikishima was reclassified as a first class coast defence ship in September 1921 2 and was used for training duties in various capacities until disarmed and reclassified as a transport in 1923 Her hulk continued to be used as a training ship until she was scrapped in 1948 11 Notes Edit Cwt is the abbreviation for hundredweight 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun Footnotes Edit a b c d e f g h i j k Brook 1999 p 125 a b c d Chesneau and Kolesnik p 221 a b Jentschura Jung amp Mickel p 17 Jentschura Jung amp Mickel p 18 Brook 1999 p 126 Friedman pp 270 71 Brook 1985 p 278 Friedman pp 275 76 Friedman p 114 Brook 1999 pp 125 26 a b c d e Silverstone p 336 Silverstone p 328 Forczyk pp 41 44 Forczyk pp 45 46 Warner amp Warner p 279 a b Forczyk p 46 Warner amp Warner pp 279 82 Forczyk pp 51 52 Campbell p 263References EditBrook Peter 1985 Armstrong Battleships for Japan Warship International Toledo Ohio International Naval Research Organization XXII 3 268 82 ISSN 0043 0374 Brook Peter 1999 Warships for Export Armstrong Warships 1867 1927 Gravesend Kent UK World Ship Society ISBN 0 905617 89 4 Campbell N J M 1978 The Battle of Tsu Shima In Preston Antony ed Warship II London Conway Maritime Press pp 46 49 127 135 186 192 258 265 ISBN 0 87021 976 6 Chesneau Roger amp Kolesnik Eugene M eds 1979 Conway s All the World s Fighting Ships 1860 1905 Greenwich UK Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0 8317 0302 4 Evans David amp Peattie Mark R 1997 Kaigun Strategy Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887 1941 Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press ISBN 0 87021 192 7 Forczyk Robert 2009 Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship Yellow Sea 1904 05 Oxford UK Osprey ISBN 978 1 84603 330 8 Evans David amp Peattie Mark R 1997 Kaigun Strategy Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887 1941 Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press ISBN 0 87021 192 7 Friedman Norman 2011 Naval Weapons of World War One Barnsley UK Seaforth ISBN 978 1 84832 100 7 Hoare J E 1999 Britain and Japan Biographical Portraits Volume III Routledge ISBN 1 873410 89 1 Jentschura Hansgeorg Jung Dieter amp Mickel Peter 1977 Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869 1945 Annapolis Maryland United States Naval Institute ISBN 0 87021 893 X Lengerer Hans amp Ahlberg Lars 2019 Capital Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868 1945 Ironclads Battleships and Battle Cruisers An Outline History of Their Design Construction and Operations Vol I Armourclad Fusō to Kongō Class Battle Cruisers Zagreb Croatia Despot Infinitus ISBN 978 953 8218 26 2 Silverstone Paul H 1984 Directory of the World s Capital Ships New York Hippocrene Books ISBN 0 88254 979 0 Warner Denis amp Warner Peggy 2002 The Tide at Sunrise A History of the Russo Japanese War 1904 1905 2nd ed London Frank Cass ISBN 0 7146 5256 3 External links Edit Battleships portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shikishima class battleship Global Security site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shikishima class battleship amp oldid 1136852522, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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