Japanese cruiser Kasuga

Kasuga was the name ship of the Kasuga-class armoured cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built by Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente near Genoa, where the type was known as the Giuseppe Garibaldi class. Ordered by the Italian navy as Mitra in 1901, she was sold to Argentina, which named her Bernardino Rivadavia, and then to Japan, which bought her on 30 December 1903 and renamed her Kasuga. Her keel was laid on 10 March 1902 and she was launched on 22 October 1902. About 111.7 metres long, she had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines and eight coal-fired Scotch boilers, and reached just over 20 knots. She fought at the Yellow Sea and Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, became a training ship in the late 1920s, was hulked in 1942 and was scrapped after being salvaged in 1948.