Japanese battleship Kashima

Kashima at anchor
History
Japan
Name	Kashima
Namesake	Kashima Shrine
Ordered	1904
Builder	Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick
Yard number	755
Laid down	29 February 1904
Launched	22 March 1905
Completed	23 May 1906
Out of service	April 1922
Stricken	20 September 1923
Fate	Scrapped, 1924
General characteristics
Class and type	Katori-class semi-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	16,383 long tons (16,646 t) (normal)
Length	473 ft 7 in (144.3 m)
Beam	78 ft 2 in (23.8 m)
Draught	26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)
Installed power	20 Niclausse boilers 15,800 ihp (11,800 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	864
Armament	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns 4 × single 10 in (254 mm) guns 10 × twin 6 in (152 mm) guns 12 × single 12-pdr 3 in (76 mm) guns 3 × single 3-pdr (1.9 in (47 mm)) guns 5 × 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 3.5–9 in (89–229 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Gun turrets: 9 in (229 mm)

Kashima (鹿島 (戦艦), Kashima (senkan)) was the second ship of the two Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards. Ordered just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, the ship was completed a year after its end. She saw no combat during World War I, although the ship was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Kashima was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.