Japanese cruiser Nisshin

Nisshin was a Kasuga-class armoured cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built by Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente near Genoa, where the type was known as the Giuseppe Garibaldi class. The Italian navy ordered her in 1901, Argentina bought her the next year and named her Mariano Moreno, and Japan purchased her on 30 December 1903 and renamed her Nisshin on 1 January 1904. She was laid down on 29 March 1902 and launched on 9 February 1903. She had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines and eight coal-fired Scotch boilers, with 12 water-tube boilers fitted in 1914. She fought alongside her sister Kasuga at the Yellow Sea and Tsushima, became a training vessel in 1927, was stricken in April 1935 and was sunk as a target ship in 1936.