Japanese battleship IJN Satsuma
Career
Designed:	1904 Fiscal Year
Laid down:	15 May 1905
Launched:	15 November 1906
Completed:	25 March 1910
Fate:	Sunk as target, 7 September 1924
General Characteristics
Displacement:	19,372 tons (standard), 19,700 (fully loaded)
Length:	146.91 meters (overall)
Beam:	25.4 meters
Draught:	8.38 meters
Propulsion:	Triple VTE expansion engines; 20 Miyabara boilers; 17,300 HP
Speed:	18.25 knots (33.8 km/h)
Fuel:	2860 tons coal; 377 tons oil
Complement:	887
Armament:	•   4 × 305 mm guns  • 12 × 254 mm guns  • 12 × 120 mm guns  •   8 ×   80 mm guns  •   5 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armor:	• belt: 100–230 mm • barbette: 180–240 mm • turret: 180–200 mm • conning tower: 150 mm • deck:   50 mm

Satsuma (薩摩, Satsuma^?) was a dreadnought type battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy , designed and built in Japan by the Yokosuka Naval Yards. The name Satsuma comes from Satsuma Province, now a part of Kagoshima prefecture. She was largest battleship in the world at the time of her launch. She was also the first battleship to be built domestically in Japan, although many parts were sourced from Great Britain including, crucially, her main armament, which was to have been made on Tyneside by Armstrong. Her sister ship was the battleship Aki. Image File history File links IJN_Satsuma. ... Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_Japan. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... Dreadnought may refer to: Battleships were called Dreadnoughts, following the launch of the HMS Dreadnought in 1906. ... For other uses, see Battleship (disambiguation). ... The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍   or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of Empire of Greater Japan, also known as the Japanese Navy or Combined Fleet was the Navy of Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japans constitutional renunciation of the use of force... Categories: Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture | Japan geography stubs ... Satsuma (薩摩国; -no Kuni) was an old province of Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima prefecture on the island of Kyushu. ... Kagoshima Prefecture ) is located on Kyushu island, Japan. ... A sister ship is a ship of the same class as, or of virtually identical design to, another ship. ... The IJN Aki (安芸) was a dreadnought type battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built in Japan by the Kure Naval Yards. ...

Following the lessons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) and the Battle of Tsushima (1905), in which same-caliber big guns turned to be the best solution to hit enemy warships from a distance (thus avoiding the threat of torpedoes, and coordinating fire with identical salvoes), the Satsuma was the first ship to be laid down as an all-big gun battleship. However, the first all-big-gun ship to be completed was the British HMS Dreadnought: Combatants Imperial Russia Empire of Japan Commanders N/A N/A Strength 500,000 Soldiers 400,000 Soldiers Casualties 134,817+ KIA/POW, 170,000 MIA etc. ... Combatants Japan Russia Commanders Heihachiro Togo Zinovi Rozhdestvenski Nikolai Nebogatov Strength 4 battleships, 27 cruisers, in addition to destroyers and auxiliary vessels 8 battleships, 3 coastal battleships, 8 cruisers Casualties 117 dead, 583 injured, 3 torpedo boats sunk 4380 dead, 5917 injured 21 ships sunk, 7 captured, 6 disarmed The... The sixth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was the first battleship to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a secondary battery of smaller guns. ...

Just like the 1908 USS South Carolina (BB-26), another all-big-gun ship that existed on paper before HMS Dreadnought (she was only laid down in December 1906), the Satsuma lacked the other big advance in British ship technology — the move from triple expansion steam engines to steam turbines for propulsion, thus Dreadnought's claim to be the single biggest revolution in battleship design of the period is secure. Sir William George Armstrong William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (November 26, 1810 – December 27, 1900) was an English industrialist, the effective founder of the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire. ... Janes Information Group (often referred to as Janes) was founded by John F.T. Jane in 1898. ... USS South Carolina (BB-26), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleship, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the eighth state. ... // The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ... A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ...

The Satsuma participated in World War I, patrolling the sea lanes south of Japan, in the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and assisting in the occupation of the former German Caroline Islands, and in the Battle of Tsingtao. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. ... ... Look out for the kooks who run a surf camp there. ... The Battle of Tsingtao was the attack on the German-controlled port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China during World War I. It too took place between 27 August-7 November 1914 and was fought by Japan and the United Kingdom against Germany. ...

The Satsuma was scrapped to comply with the provisions of the 1922 Washington Treaty, and was expended as a target. It was sunk by gunfire 30 nautical miles (55 km) northeast of Miyakejima from the Kongō and Hyūga on 7 September 1924. The Washington Naval Treaty limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and Italy. ... A nautical mile or sea mile is a unit of length. ... View from Kozushima Miyakejima is an island in the Izu group, southeast of Honshu, Japan. ... Kongō (金剛, vajra or indestructible) was the Imperial Japanese Navys first super-dreadnought type battlecruiser, and the name-ship of her class, which also included the Hiei, Kirishima, and Haruna. ... HyÅ«ga (日向), named for HyÅ«ga Province in KyÅ«shÅ«, was an Ise class battleship laid down by Mitsubishi on 6 May 1915, launched on 27 January 1917 and completed on 30 April 1918. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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