Japanese cruiser Yoshino

Yoshino was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, named for the Yoshino mountains in Nara prefecture. She was an improved version of the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo, designed by Sir Philip Watts and built by Armstrong Whitworth at its Elswick shipyards in the United Kingdom. She was laid down in February 1892, launched on 20 December 1892 and completed on 30 September 1893, and when commissioned she was the largest ship in the Japanese navy and the fastest cruiser in the world. A triple expansion steam engine with four cylindrical boilers drove her two screws, and she carried four 6 inch and eight 4.7 inch Elswick guns. She played an important part in the First Sino-Japanese War, including the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and sank after a collision with the armoured cruiser Kasuga in fog on 15 May 1904.