Japanese battleship Katori

Katori at anchor
History
Japan
Name	Katori
Namesake	Katori Shrine
Builder	Vickers Barrow-in-Furness, UK
Laid down	27 April 1904
Launched	4 July 1905
Commissioned	20 May 1906
Decommissioned	20 September 1923
Out of service	April 1922
Stricken	23 October 1923
Fate	Scrapped, 1924–25
General characteristics
Class and type	Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	15,950 long tons (16,210 t) (normal)
Length	456 ft 3 in (139.1 m)
Beam	78 ft (23.8 m)
Draught	27 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power	20 Niclausse boilers 16,000 shp (12,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 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 12 × single 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	Krupp cemented armour Belt: 3.5–9 in (89–229 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Main gun turrets: 9 in (229 mm)

Katori (香取 (戦艦)) was the lead ship of the two Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleships built in the first decade of the 20th century, the last to be built by British shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). 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. Katori was disarmed and scrapped in 1923–1925 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.