Japanese cruiser Chitose
Japanese cruiser Chitose
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Chitose |
Ordered | 1896 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Union Iron Works, United States |
Laid down | 16 May 1897 |
Launched | 22 January 1898 |
Completed | 1 March 1899 |
Commissioned | March 1899 |
Decommissioned | 1 April 1928 |
Stricken | 1 April 1928 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 19 July 1931 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kasagi-class cruiser |
Displacement | 4,836 t (4,760 long tons) |
Length | 115.3 m (378 ft 3 in) w/l |
Beam | 15 m (49 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in) |
Installed power | 11,600 kW (15,600 hp ) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 22.5 kn (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) |
Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 405 |
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Chitose (千歳) was a Kasagi-class protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was the sister ship to Kasagi.
Background
Chitose was ordered as part of the 1896 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Budget, funded by the war indemnity received from the Empire of China as part of the settlement of the Treaty of Shimonoseki ending the First Sino-Japanese War.
Design
Chitose was designed and built in
Service record
Chitose's
Chitose arrived at Yokosuka Naval District on 30 April 1899.
Russo-Japanese War
During the
, and sinking a Russian destroyer on 25 February. During the Battle of the Yellow Sea on 10 August, Chitose participated in the unsuccessful pursuit of the cruisers Askold and Novik, and continued to pursue Novik to Hokkaido together with Tsushima, sinking the Russian cruiser at the Battle of Korsakov on 21 August.[5]During the final decisive Battle of Tsushima, Chitose, together with the other cruisers in the 3rd Division, engaged the Russian cruisers Oleg, Aurora, and Zhemchug. When Kasagi was damaged in the battle, Admiral Dewa transferred his flag to Chitose. The following day, Chitose sank a Russian destroyer, and successfully pursued the cruiser Izumrud. Following the Battle of Tsushima, Chitose was assigned to cover the landings of Japanese reinforcements in northern Korea. She returned to Maizuru Naval Arsenal for repairs at the end of July 1905.
World War I
From 1 April-16 November 1907, Chitose made a round-the-world voyage together with the armoured cruiser Tsukuba, first stopping in the United States to attend the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, the 300th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Jamestown Colony, and continuing onwards to Europe. She underwent an extensive overhaul in 1910, with her cylindrical locomotive-style boilers replaced by more reliable Miyabara boilers.[1]
During World War I, Chitose was assigned to the
The ship was downgraded to a 2nd class
Notes
- ^ a b Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Page 230
- ^ "Launch of Japanese man-of-war "Chitosa" [i.e., "Chitose"]". loc.gov. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ "Launching, no. 2". loc.gov. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ "After launching". loc.gov. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ Willmont, The Last Century of Sea Power.
References
- Chesneau, Roger (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.
- Evans, David C. & ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
- Jane, Fred T. (1904). The Imperial Japanese Navy. Thacker, Spink & Co.
- Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 978-0-87021-893-4.
- Milanovich, Kathrin (2023). "Takasago, Kasagi and Chitose: The IJN's First 8in-Gun Protected Cruisers". In Jordan, John (ed.). Warship 2023. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 65–80. ISBN 978-1-4728-5713-2.
- Roberts, John (ed). (1983). 'Warships of the world from 1860 to 1905 - Volume 2: United States, Japan and Russia. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz. ISBN 3-7637-5403-2.
- Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4977-9.
- Sieche, Erwin F. (1990). "Austria-Hungary's Last Visit to the USA". Warship International. XXVII (2): 142–164. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Willmont, H. P. (2009). The Last Century of Sea Power: From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894-1922. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35214-9.
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