Japanese cruiser Yoshino
Yoshino in 1893
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Yoshino |
| Ordered: | 1891 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth, United Kingdom |
| Yard number: | 596 |
| Laid down: | February 1892 |
| Launched: | 20 December 1892 |
| Completed: | 30 September 1893 |
| Fate: | Sunk after collision, 15 May 1904 |
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| Type: | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4,150 long tons (4,217 t) |
| Length: | 109.72 m (360 ft 0 in) w/l |
| Beam: | 14.17 m (46 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 5.18 m (17 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft VTE reciprocating engines, 12 boilers, 15,000 hp (11,000 kW), 1000 tons coal |
| Speed: | 23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h) |
| Range: | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 360 |
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Yoshino (吉野?) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yoshino is sometimes regarded as a sister ship to Takasago, although the two vessels are of different classes. The name Yoshino comes from the Yoshino mountains, located in the southern portion of Nara prefecture. She played an important role in the First Sino-Japanese War, but was sunk in the Russo-Japanese War after being rammed by Japanese armored cruiser Kasuga in dense fog.
Yoshino was an improved design of the Argentine Navy cruiser 25 de Mayo designed by Sir Philip Watts, and built by the Armstrong Whitworth shipyards in Elswick, in the United Kingdom. Watts was also responsible for the design of the cruiser Izumi and the Naniwa-class cruisers. When commissioned, Yoshino was the largest ship in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was also the fastest cruiser in the world when she entered service.
Yoshino was a typical Elswick cruiser design, with a steel housing, divided into waterproof compartments, a low forecastle, twin funnels, and two masts. The prow was reinforced for ramming. The power plant was a triple expansion reciprocating steam engine with four cylindrical boilers, driving two screws.
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