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        Yodo 1908

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
淀 [Yodo]			Kawasaki, Kobe	2.10.1906	19.11.1907	10.7.1908	survey vessel 1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1250
Displacement full, t
Length, m	85.3 pp 93.1 oa
Breadth, m	9.80
Draught, m	3.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VC, 4 Miyabara boilers
Power, h. p.	6500
Max speed, kts	22
Fuel, t	coal 339 + oil 76
Endurance, nm(kts)	3600(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. Yodo became a survey ship in 1927, and was removed from the effective list only on 1 April 1940.