The French-built Matsushima, flagship of the Japanese Navy up to the Sino-Japanese conflict.
The Matsushima was a cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in France under the supervision of Emile Bertin. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Matsushima(Bertin). ... Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Matsushima(Bertin). ... Jump to: navigation, search Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Louis-Emile Bertin in his later years. ...
The ship was built by the "Compagnie des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée à la Seyne". Her displacement was 4,700 tons, her speed 16 knots. She was 90 meters long at 15 meters large.
She was equipped with many high-speed guns and a unique massive 12.5 inches Canet gun.
She was the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of the Yalu in the First Sino-Japanese War. Japan and Qing China fought the First Sino–Japanese War (also called the Qing-Japanese War, China-Japan War, or Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895)), primarily over control of Korea. ...
This is in accordance with the Sino-Japanese Convention of Tientsin of 1885 in which the two sides agreed to: (a) pull their expeditionary forces out of Korea simultaneously; (b) not send military instructors for the training of the Korean army; and (c) notify the other side beforehand should one decide to send troops to Korea.
The French-built Matsushima, flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Sino-Japanese conflict.
The modern Japanese army defeated the poorly-equipped Chinese in a series of battles around Seoul and Pyongyang, forcing them north, and by November 21 had taken the Chinese city of Lüshun (aka Port Arthur to westerners, now known as Lüshunkou, literally Lüshun Port) at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.
The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery.
Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning of the war were of high caliber as compared to their contemporaries around the world due to intense training practices and frontline experience in the Sino-Japanese War.
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