Shikishima (敷島) was the lead ship of her class of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by British shipyards in the late...

The Shikishima class (敷島型戦艦, Shikishima-gata senkan) was a two-ship class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late...

Sino-Japanese War. As with the earlier Fuji and Shikishima-class battleships, Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships,...

for a total of six battleships and six armored cruisers (the Six-Six Fleet). The two ships of the Shikishima class and the battleships Asahi and Mikasa...

Sino-Japanese War. As with the earlier Fuji and Shikishima classes, Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships, and turned...

(初瀬, Hatsuse) was a Shikishima-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial...

headed for the Eastern channel of Tsushima." 06:05 The 1st (Japanese battleship Mikasa, Shikishima, Fuji, Asahi, Kasuga, Nisshin), 2nd (Izumo, Azuma, Tokiwa...

operated by the Japan Coast Guard Shikishima (PLH 31), a patrol vessel of the Japan Coast Guard Shikishima-class battleship, a class of battleships built for...

Yashima) was a Fuji-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to construct...

Kōichi Shikishima lands his Mitsubishi A6M Zero for repairs at the Japanese base on Odo Island. Lead mechanic Sōsaku Tachibana deduces that Shikishima is...

Vice Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the Russo-Japanese War, he commanded the Japanese battleship Shikishima during the Battle of Tsushima...

Class Overview MaritimeQuest Japanese Battleship Index Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Materials of IJN...

similar amount was killed in Kohachimara. The typhoon affected the battleship Shikishima, where the ship was unanchored and dragged ashore. Another ship...

lasted a little while longer under concentrated Japanese fire. Two 12-inch hits by the battleship Shikishima at 19:18 started a massive fire and both the...

the Japanese classical scholar, Motoori Norinaga. The poem reads: If someone asks about the Yamato spirit [Spirit of Old/True Japan] of Shikishima [a poetic...

of battleships ever built, were some of the most successful battleships of their time, and they were widely copied. Indeed, the Japanese Shikishima class...

of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the...

16 mph). His fleet consisted of Japan's five surviving battleships Mikasa, Asahi, Fuji, Shikishima and the second class battleship Chin Yen, the armoured cruisers...

pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century. Completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War...

Sussex (d. 1969) The naval Battle of Korsakov resulted in a Japanese victory. The Japanese cruiser Tsushima prevented the Russian cruiser Novik from escaping...

the battleships Hatsuse, Shikishima, and Yashima, the protected cruiser Kasagi, and the dispatch boat Tatsuta put to sea to relieve the Japanese blockading...

pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in...

The Russian battleship Poltava (Russian: Полтава) was one of three Petropavlovsk-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy...

the Combined Fleet, consisting of the six pre-dreadnought battleships Hatsuse, Shikishima, Asahi, Fuji, and Yashima, led by the flagship Mikasa, and...

combat at the Battle of the Yellow Sea in the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese battleships Asahi, Shikishima and Mikasa all had one of their main guns taken...

destroyers. The Japanese fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, was comprised four battleships, Mikasa, Asahi, Fuji, Shikishima, two armoured...

destroy a major portion of the Japanese fleet if the opportunity arose. The Japanese Center Force now consisted of the battleships Yamato, Nagato, Kongō, and...

duty on the cruisers Aso and Iwate, and as a sub-lieutenant on the battleship Shikishima, cruiser Izumo, battlecruiser Tsukuba and destroyer Katsura. He...

calibre of the main battery, and literally in that the Japanese Shikishima class and the battleship Mikasa were little more than minor improvements on the...

After his promotion to lieutenant in 1905, Nagano served on the battleship Shikishima. From 1905 to 1906, he studied naval artillery and navigation. From...