Japanese cruiser Itsukushima
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Itsukushima.
Itsukushima (厳島) was the lead ship in the Matsushima class of protected cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Like her sister ships, (Matsushima and Hashidate) the name Itsukushima comes from one of the traditional Three Views of Japan, in this case, the Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima prefecture on the Seto Inland Sea, home to a famous Shinto-Buddhist shrine dedicated to the Buddhist goddess Benzaiten.
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Name | Itsukushima |
Namesake | Itsukushima Shrine |
Ordered | 1886 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France |
Laid down | 7 January 1888 |
Launched | 18 July 1889 |
Completed | 3 September 1891 |
Stricken | 12 March 1926 |
Fate | Scrapped 1926 |
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Class and type | Matsushima-class cruiser |
Displacement | 4,278 long tons (4,347 t) |
Length | 91.81 m (301 ft 3 in) w/l |
Beam | 15.6 m (51 ft 2 in) |
Draft | 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | 2-shaft reciprocating; 6 boilers; 5,400 hp (4,000 kW), 680 tons coal |
Speed | 16.5 knots (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) |
Complement | 360 |
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