Japanese battleship Kashima

Kashima was the second of the two Katori-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy, the last battleships Japan bought from British yards. The class was an improved version of the Royal Navy's King Edward VII class. Japan ordered her from Armstrong Whitworth in January 1904, and she was laid down at the Elswick yard on 29 February 1904 as yard number 755, launched on 22 March 1905 and completed on 23 May 1906. She displaced about 16,400 long tons at normal load and was driven by two triple-expansion steam engines fed by 20 Niclausse boilers, burning coal with fuel oil sprayed on it to raise its power. Her main battery was four Elswick 12-inch guns. She saw no combat in the First World War, was present when Japan joined the Siberian Intervention in 1918, and was disarmed and scrapped in 1923 to 1924 under the Washington Naval Treaty.