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Mogami

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
最上 [Mogami]			Mitsubishi, Nagasaki	3.3.1907	25.3.1908	16.9.1908	stricken 1928

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1350
Displacement full, t
Length, m	91.4 pp 96.3 oa
Breadth, m	9.80
Draught, m	3.00
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Parsons steam turbines, 6 Miyabara boilers
Power, h. p.	8000
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 340 + oil 76
Endurance, nm(kts)	3300(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 63, CT: 51
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong T, 4 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	180

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Project history

Essentially small cruisers although rated as dispatch boats, these craft became obsolete with the advent of radio communitions. Because they had to be very fast, Mogami was the first turbine ship in the Japanese Navy, and also the first with three shafts. Although their particulars were similar, Yodo had a clipper bow and two funnels, whereas Mogami had a straight raked bow and three funnels. Both were delayed in construction, although officially laid down on 11 December 1905.

Ship protection

Main 63mm deck had 63mm slopes and protected machinery only.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Reclassified as gunboat in 1912. Mogami was stricken in 1928.