Japanese battleship Fuji

Fuji at anchor, 1908
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Fuji
Namesake	Mount Fuji
Ordered	1894
Builder	Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London
Laid down	1 August 1894
Launched	31 March 1896
Commissioned	8 August 1897
Decommissioned	1923
Reclassified	1 September 1922 as training hulk and barracks
Stricken	1 September 1922
Fate	Scrapped 1948
General characteristics
Class and type	Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	12,230 long tons (12,430 t) (normal)
Length	412 ft (125.6 m)
Beam	73 ft 6 in (22.4 m)
Draught	26 ft 3 in (8.0 m)
Installed power	13,500 ihp (10,100 kW) 10 cylindrical boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	650
Armament	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 10 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 20 × single 3-pdr guns 4 × single 2.5-pdr guns 5 × 18-inch torpedo tubes
Armour	Harvey armour Belt: 14–18 in (356–457 mm) Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) Gun turrets: 6 in (152 mm)

Fuji (富士) was the lead ship of the Fuji class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British firm of Thames Iron Works in the late 1890s. The ship participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war with her sister Yashima. Fuji fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action. The ship was reclassified as a coastal defence ship in 1910 and served as a training ship for the rest of her career. She was hulked in 1922 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948.