Japanese cruiser Kasagi
Japanese cruiser Kasagi at Kobe in 1898
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| Name: | Kasagi |
| Ordered: | 1896 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, USA |
| Laid down: | 13 February 1897 |
| Launched: | 20 January 1898 |
| Completed: | 24 October 1898 |
| Out of service: | 10 August 1916 |
| Struck: | 5 November 1916 |
| Fate: | Wrecked in the Tsugaru Strait |
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| Class and type: | Kasagi-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4,979 t (4,900 long tons) |
| Length: | 114.1 m (374 ft 4 in) w/l |
| Beam: | 14.9 m (48 ft 11 in) |
| Draft: | 5.41 m (17 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power: | 11,600 kW (15,600 hp) |
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| Speed: | 22.5 kn (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) |
| Range: | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 405 |
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Kasagi (笠置?) was the lead ship in the Kasagi-class protected cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The vessel was the sister ship to the Chitose. She was named after Mount Kasagi, a holy mountain outside Kyoto.
Kasagi was ordered as part of the 1896 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Budget, funded by the war indemnity received from the Empire of China as part of the settlement of the Treaty of Shimonoseki ending the First Sino-Japanese War.
Kasagi was designed and built in Philadelphia, in the United States by William Cramp and Sons (who had also built the cruiser Varyag for the Imperial Russian Navy). Kasagi was the first major capital warship to be ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy from an American shipbuilder. Her specifications were very similar to that of the British-built Takasago, but with slightly larger displacement and overall dimensions, but with identical gun armament (and without the bow torpedo tubes). However, internally the ships were very different, with Kasagi having 142 watertight compartments, compared with 109 in Takasago.
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