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Topic: Japanese battleship Satsuma

	Battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main battleship nations during this period were Britain, France and Russia, plus newcomers Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, while Turkey and Spain built small numbers of armoured frigates and cruisers, and Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands built smaller "coastal battleships" (pantserschip) of up to 5,000 tons.
		The Imperial Japanese Navy's Satsuma was the first battleship in the world to be designed and laid down as an all-big-gun battleship, although gun shortages only allowed her to be equipped with four of the twelve 12-in guns that had been planned.
		Battleships still in existence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British HMS Mary Rose, Victory and Warrior, the Japanese Mikasa, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huascar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battleship (4644 words)

	Japanese warship Shohei Maru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shōhei Maru (Japanese: 昇平丸) was Japan's first Western-style warship following the country's period of Seclusion.
		She was ordered in 1852 by the government of the Shogun to the southern fief of Satsuma in the island of Kyushu, in anticipation of the announced mission of Commodore Perry in 1853.
		The ship was commissioned in 1854 and sent to Edo in February 1855, before being transferred to the Bakufu government in August 1855.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Shohei_Maru (235 words)

	Articles - Imperial Japanese Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of these battleships, Mikasa, the most advanced ship of her time, was ordered from the Vickers shipyard in the United Kingdom at the end of 1898, for delivery to Japan in 1902.
		In 1906, it launched the battleship Satsuma, at the time the largest warship in the world by displacement, and the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, one year before the British HMS Dreadnought.
		The Japanese pilot corps at the begining 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.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Japanese_Navy?mySession=5704614b411ddc71fc1d07bc3cf05c7b (3606 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the Japanese side, the human loss from the navy air force was 2,525 and from the army air force was 1,387.
		The Japanese forces had lost the power they had at the beginning of the Pacific War (known officially as the Great Eastern Asian War in Japan) after their defeat at the Battle of Midway, and the US forces, with their rich resources and strong industrial power, were cornering the Japanese with.
		On July 15 1944, Saipan, which was the important base for the defense of Japanese mainland, finally fell to the Americans.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kamikaze.html (1547 words)

	Satsuma Class
		While the Yamato class battleships were being built, their "successors", hull numbers 798 and 799, were being designed as slightly heavier versions having twin 20" guns in each of three turrets instead of triple 18".
		The Japanese didn't have enough shipbuilding capacity, stockpiled steel, or armor to make them, but if built they would have had the largest guns on the largest hull ever afloat in the world.
		Though both Japanese ships had crude radar, the blast damage and small artillery fire from the landing escorts had caused "chatter" that obscured the oncoming Americans, and the American's superb fire-control radar began directing accurate fire from over the horizon.
	www.combinedfleet.com /furashita/satsum_f.htm (584 words)

	Timeline Japan to 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In it was buried the collected ears and noses of victims from the Japanese invasion of Korea that began in 1592.
		1877 The rebellion of Satsuma province was quelled.
		It was soon followed by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the eventual establishment of the Japanese-dominated state of Manchukuo.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/JAPAN_1940.HTML (8713 words)

	NWC Review, Winter 2000: Saxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japanese cooperation is all the more surprising given that both British and American historians have characterized Japan’s role in the First World War as that of a “jackal state,” one that took a lion’s share of the kill after only minimally assisting the cause.
		The Japanese navy relieved the Akashi in June 1917 with the armored cruiser Izumo and reinforced the Malta squadron with the destroyers Kashi, Hinoki, Momo, and Yanagi.
		Japanese destroyers’ ratio of time at sea to time in port was the highest of any allied warships during the war: Japanese warships were under way 72 percent of the time.
	www.usnwc.edu /press/Review/2000/winter/art3-w00.htm (8958 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Deployment 1914
		Below is the basic structure of the Japanese navy under the reorganization of 10 July 1914; they do not tell which ships were in each formation, so I'm not sure whether this will be helpful.
		Under the previous organization all battleships as well as many cruisers were in the First Fleet; cruisers and coast-defense ships comprised the Second and Third Fleets; destroyers were in divisions of four ships attached to naval stations and sometimes to the fleets.
		Antony Preston's "Battleships of World War I" (published in the U.S. by Stackpole, 1972; I think it was originally published in the UK) includes introductory sections for each fleet with some interesting material on sometimes-neglected subjects like organization, dockyards, and the like.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/fdjn0001.htm (545 words)

	Articles - Togo Heihachiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Togo was born on December 22, 1847 (by the Western calendar) in the Kachiyacho district of city of Kagoshima in Satsuma Province (modern-day Kagoshima prefecture).
		They rose to prominent positions under the Meiji Emperor partly because the Satsuma clan had been a decisive military and political factor in the Boshin war against the Bakufu and the restoration of Imperial power.
		As the conflict spread to northern Japan, Togo participated as a third-class officer aboard Kasuga to the last battles against the remnants of the Bakufu forces, the Naval Battle of Miyako and the Naval Battle of Hakodate (1869).
	www.lastring.com /articles/Heihachiro_Togo (770 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy- Aircraft Carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was learned that the larger caliber guns did the most damage and as a result battleships throughout the world were being fitted with all large guns (Dreadnoughts).
		The Japanese Imperial Navy's battleship fleet can be best described as being extremely powerful, but small in number.
		With the advancements with the aircraft carrier, the days of the battleships were numbered.
	www.geocities.com /japaneseships/BattleShips.htm (89 words)

	physics - Imperial Japanese Navy
		The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (大日本帝國海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun) was the navy of Japan before 1945.
		It was administered by the Ministry of the Navy of Japan and controlled, somewhat, by the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff at Imperial General Headquarters.
		By the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1867, the Japanese navy of the shogun already possessed eight western-style steam warships around the flagship Kaiyō Maru, which were used against pro-imperial forces during the Boshin war, under the command of Admiral Enomoto.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Japanese_Navy (1183 words)

	Tsingtao Campaign
		Japanese diplomacy centered on an alliance with Britain, in which each pledged to aid the other should they become embroiled with 2 great powers.
		Poor Japanese sanitary standards, varying scales of provisions, differing staff routines, conflicting tactical doctrine, British racial arrogance (many thought of their allies as coolies in uniform): all contributed to prickly relations.
		Japanese Army HQ made a point of showing that the Tsingtao campaign in no way disturbed the routine Army maneuvers in November.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/tsingtao.htm (8310 words)

	The Battleship Kongo
		The Japanese battleship Kongô, a ship with a magical name and an important history, was budgeted in 1910 and ordered from the British shipbuilder Vickers in January 1911.
		Battleships had always required masts for spotting, range finding, and fire control, but the need for height increased as possible ranges of targets increased and eyeballing was replaced by heavy optical equipment.
		Victory was no foregone conclusion, since these six Japanese battleships (with an ex-Chinese one thrown in), did not outnumber the Russian squadron in Port Arthur.
	www.friesian.com /kongo.htm (6746 words)

	Japanese battleship yamato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yamato was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		Japanese Battleship Yamato Suffers Devastating Attack from TBMs.
		The WW2 BB Yamato was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
	www.lookgames.net /japanese-battleship-yamato.html (1422 words)

	People-Japan--Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa, IJN, (1888-1981)
		Gunichi Mikawa was born on 29 August 1888 and graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1910.
		In 1919-20, Lieutenant Mikawa was attached to the Japanese delegation to the post-war peace conference in France.
		He was Commanding Officer of the heavy cruisers Aoba and Chokai and the battleship Kirishima in the mid-1930s.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/prs-for/japan/japrs-m/g-mikawa.htm (470 words)

	dreadnoughts
		It notes that this is the first Japanese Dreadnought which was laid down in May 1905, during the war with Russia.
		Although the British were to suffer greater losses the conflict was to keep the German fleet bottled up for the remainder of the war as although they had fewer vessels sunk only 6 of their battleships survived unscathed, as opposed to 26 in the English fleet.
		Certainly the Battle of Jutland was something of a wasted opportunity for the British to totally destroy the German fleet which managed to escape by the skin of their teeth, and no small amount of skill.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Franklyn_Roberts/dread.htm (1282 words)

	Russian Volunteer Fleet
		There she embarked the garrison and headed back for New Guinea with the intention of using it to raid Madang, but a false alarm within sight of her destination again saw her charting a course for Yap.
		Off the entrance she sighted the Japanese battleship SATSUMA, quickly changing course for the western Carolines.
		The Russian Volunteer Fleet was not limited to civilian cargo/passenger/mail vessels capable of being converted to auxiliary cruisers or used for other, specialized, purposes.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/rusvolfl.htm (1300 words)

	Führer
		This "Tirpitz" with larger guns was almost undoubtedly the world's best battleship at the time of completion in 1942, rivalling the Japanese Satsuma and the now-defunct French Alsace.
		Friedrich der Große's loss in battle to an obsolescent Russian (!!) battleship made Hitler furious and he insisted that this new design be unsinkable.
		In spite of the great "victory" of destroying three large battleships of their enemy, the Kreigsmarine had "failed" Hitler once again, and he fired every admiral except Dönitz the next day.
	www.combinedfleet.com /furashita/fuhrer_f.htm (585 words)

	Japanese Battleships
		Japanese Battleships from the First World War to the Second World War.
		From the battleship Satsuma the first Japanese battleship to be built in Japan to the mighty Yamato Class, Yamato and Musashi.
		Salvaged October 1905 by Japanese to serve as training ship.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /battleships4.htm (554 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fleet Headquarters - Was at Tokyo then moved to Hiroshima and finally to Keio University in the Tokyo suburb of Hiyodashi.
		Additionally exist others bases in: -Chisima Islands (joint at Japanese Army detachments)
		These directly controlled 90 armed merchant ships (called maru), submarine chasers, gunboats, 6 minelayers, 42 minesweepers and 46 auxiliaries.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/I/Imperial-Japanese-Navy.htm (1291 words)

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