Chitose 1905
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 千歳 [Chitose] | Union Iron Wks, San Francisco, USA | 16.5.1897 | 23.1.1898 | 1.3.1899 | stricken 7.1928 | ||
| 笠置 [Kasagi] | Cramp, Philadelphia, USA | 3.1897 | 20.1.1898 | 12.1898 | wrecked 13.8.1916 |
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Displacement normal, t |
Chitose: 4760 Kasagi: 4900 |
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Displacement full, t |
Chitose: 5598 Kasagi: 6066 |
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Length, m |
Chitose: 114.9 pp 120.4 oa Kasagi: 114.1 pp 121.5 oa |
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Breadth, m |
Chitose: 15.0 Kasagi: 14.9 |
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Draught, m |
Chitose: 5.37 Kasagi: 5.41 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 12 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
15000 |
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Max speed, kts |
22.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 1000 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
Kasagi: 4200(11.5) Chitose: 4500(11) |
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Armour, mm |
Harvey nickel steel - main gun shields: 114 (faces), 64 (sides), secondary gun shields: 64, deck: 45, slopes: 114, CT: 114 |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 203/45 Armstrong S, 10 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong T, 12 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 6 x 1 - 47/30 21/2pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 5 - 350 TT (1 bow, 4 beam) |
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Complement |
Chitose: 434 Kasagi: 405 |
Project history: These two cruisers were almost identical externally to the Takasago, but were slightly longer and had greater displacement. Armament was identical to the Takasago, except that the bow TT was omitted, and disposed in a similar fashion. Internally the ships differed, watertight compartments being increased to 130 in the Chitose and 142 in Kasagi, compared to the 109 in the Takasago. However, the number of watertight compartments in the double bottom were reduced to 16 in the Chitose and 15 in the Kasagi. The machinery also differed from the Takasago's, twelve single-ended cylindrical boilers being mounted and the engines having slightly larger cylinders, although the stroke remained the same.
Ship protection: 45mm deck had 114mm slopes, machinery was protected by 76mm glacis. Main guns were protected by 114-64mm shields, secondary guns had 64mm protection. CT had 114mm sides.
Modernizations: 1910, Kasagi; 1912, Chitose: boilers were replaced by 8 Miyabara
1924, Chitose: - 2 x 1 - 76/40; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki
Naval service: In days of the First World War
Kasagi served as TS; in 1916
she was wrecked in Tsugaru Strait.
Chitose was disarmed in
1922 and
ranked as
coast defence ship in 1922 - 1926, in 1928 converted to target.
She was sunk on manoeuvres in Bungo
Channel 19.7.1931.
Kasagi was badly damaged at battle of Tsushima by gunfire of Russian cruiser
Svetlana, later repaired. She served as TS from 1910 till 1916 and wrecked
20.7.1916 in Tsugaru Straits during an attempt to assist a merchant vessel in
distress, wreck was abandoned as CTL 13.8.1916.
Chitose 1907
Kasagi
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