Japanese battleship Settsu

Settsu at anchor
History
Japan
Name	Settsu
Namesake	Settsu Province
Ordered	22 June 1907
Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down	18 January 1909
Launched	30 March 1911
Completed	1 July 1912
Recommissioned	1924
Reclassified	Converted to target ship, 1924
Stricken	1 October 1923 20 November 1945
Fate	Scrapped, 1946–1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Kawachi-class battleship
Displacement	21,443 long tons (21,787 t) (normal)
Length	533 ft (162.5 m)
Beam	84 ft 2 in (25.7 m)
Draft	27 ft 10 in (8.5 m)
Installed power	16 Miyabara water-tube boilers 25,000 shp (19,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbine sets
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	2,700 nmi (5,000 km; 3,100 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	999–1100
Armament	2 × twin 12 in (305 mm)/50 guns 4 × twin 12-inch/45 guns 10 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 8 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 12 × single 12 pdr 3 in (76 mm) guns 5 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Waterline belt: 5–12 in (127–305 mm) Deck: 1.2 in (30 mm) Gun turrets: 11 in (279 mm) Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm) Barbettes: 11 in (279 mm)

Settsu (摂津) was the second and last of the Kawachi-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions, Settsu was named after Settsu Province,^[1] now a part of Osaka prefecture. During World War I she bombarded German fortifications at Qingdao during the siege of Qingdao in 1914, but saw no other combat. She was placed in reserve in 1919 and was disarmed in 1922 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.

Two years later, Settsu was converted into a target ship and she played a minor role at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. At the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941, the ship was used in an attempt to deceive the Allies as to the locations and activities of the Japanese aircraft carriers. Settsu reverted to her normal role as a target ship for the rest of the war; she was badly damaged when Allied aircraft carriers struck the naval base at Kure Naval District in July 1945. The ship was refloated after the war and scrapped in 1946–1947.