The Japanese ironclad warship Fuso
Career
Built:	Samuda Brothers Naval Yards, Great Britain
Ordered:	1875 Fiscal Year
Laid down	September 24 1875
Launched:	April 17 1877
Completed:	January 1878
Fate:	Scrapped 1910
General Characteristics
Displacement:	3,717 tons
Length:	67.0 meters at waterline
Beam:	14.6 meters
Draught:	5.5 meters
Propulsion:	2-shaft reciprocating; 3932 HP
Speed:	13 knots
Fuel:	360 tons coal
Complement:	250
Armament:	4 × 240 mm guns 2 × 170 mm guns 6 x 80 mm guns 1 x Nordenfeld quadruple machine gun
Armor:	100-230 mm belt; 200 mm battery; 175 mm bulkhead;

The IJN Fusō (扶桑) was an ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built by the Samuda Brothers on the Isle of Dogs, London, Great Britain, and commissioned in 1878. She was the first armored warship to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in England. Togo Heihachiro, later a prominent Japanese admiral, supervised its construction. It should not be confused with the later (1914-era) battleship Fuso. Image File history File links Fuso. ... Image File history File links Fuso. ... Image File history File links Japanese-War-Ensign. ... Samuda Brothers was an engineering and ship building firm on the Isle of Dogs, founded by Jacob and Joseph dAguilar Samuda. ... Some knots: 1. ... A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... Ironclad warships, frequently shortened to just ironclads, were wooden ships or ships of composite construction (wooden planking on iron frames) sheathed with thick iron plates for protection against gunfire. ... Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Samuda Brothers was an engineering and ship building firm on the Isle of Dogs, founded by Jacob and Joseph dAguilar Samuda. ... The Isle of Dogs is a peninsula in the East End of London. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... Admiral Togo at the age of 55, shortly before the Russo-Japanese War Fleet Admiral Count Tōgō Heihachirō (東郷 平八郎 Tōgō Heihachirō OM, January 27, 1848 - 30 May 1934) was a Japanese Admiral and one of Japans greatest naval heroes. ... Fuso (Japanese: 扶桑, an old name for Japan), was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class. ...

Delivered to Japan and based in Yokohama from 1871, the Fuso was scheduled for retirement in 1891. However, in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Fuso saw combat at the Battle of the Yalu River (during which it took 8 direct hits, with 2 crewmen killed and 12 wounded), and at the Battle of Weihaiwei. Yokohama City Hall Mayor Hiroshi Nakada Address 〒231-0017 Yokohama-shi, Naka-ku, Minato-cho 1-1 Phone number 045-671-2121 Official website: Yokohama City Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜市; -shi) is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Battle of Yalu River can refer to: Battle of Yalu River (1894), during the First Sino-Japanese War Battle of Yalu River (1904), during the Russo-Japanese War This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

On 29 October 1897, the Fuso collided with the cruiser Matsushima in rough weather off the coast of Iyo (Shikoku) and sank. Captain Uryu Sotokichi was confined to the brig for three months over the incident. Refloated the following year, the Fuso was re-classed as a Second-Class Battleship on 21 March 1898, and refitted with new Krupp cannons; repairs continued through April 1900. October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, launched in 1992. ... The French-built Matsushima, flagship of the Japanese Navy up to the Sino-Japanese conflict. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Shikoku (四国, four provinces) is the smallest and least populous (4,141,955 as of 2005) of the four main islands of Japan. ... HMS Victory in 1884 given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. ...

The Fuso again saw service during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, where it was assigned to the blockade of Port Arthur, and patrol of the sea lanes around the Strait of Tsushima. It was the flagship of Rear Admiral Hosoya, Seventh Division, Third Squadron, held in reserve independent of the Combined Fleet. Insert non-formatted text here Combatants Imperial Russia Empire of Japan Strength 500,000 Soldiers 400,000 Soldiers Casualties 25,331 Killed 146,032 Wounded 47,387 Killed 173,425 Wounded Greater Manchuria, Russian (outer) Manchuria is region to upper right in lighter Red; Liaodong Peninsula is the wedge extending... Port Arthur is the name of some places: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia Old Western name for Lushun, China Port Arthur, Texas, United States of America Port Arthur, Ontario, a city in Ontario, Canada, became part of Thunder Bay in 1970. ... The Tsushima Strait (対馬海峡) is a strait between the Korean Peninsula and Kyushu, the furthest west of the four largest islands in Japan. ...

Already extremely obsolete, the Fuso was re-classed as a Second-Class Coastal Defense Vessel immediately after the Russo-Japanese War, on 11 December 1905, and officially retired on 01 April 1908. It was broken up for scrap in Yokohama in 1910. December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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