Japanese battleship Mishima
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 ex-Russian coastal defense battleship Admiral Senyavin, which later became the IJN Mishima |
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| Career (Russia) |  |
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| Name: | Admiral Senyavin |
| Builder: | Baltic Works, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Laid down: | 1892-08-02 |
| Launched: | 1894-08-22 |
| Commissioned: | 1896 |
| Struck: | 28 May 1905 |
| Status: | prize of war to Japan |
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| Name: | Mishima |
| Acquired: | 1905 |
| Commissioned: | 1905-06-06 |
| Decommissioned: | 1922-04-01 |
| Struck: | 1935-10-10 |
| Status: | sunk as target, Sept 1936 |
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| Displacement: | 4,165 tons (normal); 4,270 tons (max) |
| Length: | 84.6 metres (277.6 ft) @ waterline |
| Beam: | 15.88 metres (52.1 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.49 metres (18.0 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Two Shaft VTE steam engine, 5,250 shp (3910 kW); 4 boilers |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Range: | 260 tons coal; 3,000 nautical miles (6,000 km) @ 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 406 |
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Mishima (見島 Mishima (senkan)?) was one of eight Russian pre-dreadnought battleships captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy from the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
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[edit] Background
Three obsolete Admiral-Ushakov Class armored warships, re-classed as a coastal defence ships by the Imperial Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet were selected to form part of Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov's Third Pacific Squadron which was sent out to reinforce Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky on his journey to the Far East during the Russo-Japanese war. Although not considered suitable for such a voyage, [1] the Admiralty insisted on including, Admiral Ushakov, General-Admiral Graf Apraxin, and Admiral Senyavin to bolster their force.
At the Battle of Tsushima on 28 May 1905, Admiral Ushakov was sunk and General-Admiral Graf Apraxin with her sister ship Admiral Senyavin were captured as prizes of war. .
General Admiral Graf Apraksin became the Okinoshima and Admiral Senyavin was commissioned into the Japanese Navy as the 2nd class Coastal Defense Vessel Mishima. , Mishima was named from the small island of Mishima, offshore from Hagi in Yamaguchi prefecture, not far from the location of the Battle of Tsushima.
[edit] Service Record
Mishima was part of the Japanese Second Fleet in World War I, participating in the Battle of Tsingtao against the Imperial German Navy. After the end of the war, Mishima supported the Japanese Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army in Russia by covering the landings of Japanese forces, and by acting as an ice breaker to keep the sea lanes between Japan and Vladivostok open.
On 1 April 1921, Mishima was re-classified as a submarine tender.
Mishima was decommissioned on 10 October 1935. It was expended as a gunnery target and sunk in September 1936 off of Kushima, Miyazaki.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Hore, Battleships, p115,
- Burt, R.A.: Japanese Battleships, 1897–1945
- Gibbons, Tony: The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers
- Hore, Peter (2005). Battleships. Anness Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7548-1408-6.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 087021893X.
- Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804749779.
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