The Last Pre-Dreadnought Battleship in the World

Buy my book here: https://a.co/d/0fIpWMfH Support my channel on Patreon:   / hiddenhistoryyt   Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe! Mikasa is the last surviving pre-dreadnought, launched in 1900, six years before HMS Dreadnought rewrote the rules. British-built by Vickers at Barrow and completed in 1902 for the Imperial Japanese Navy, she displaced about 15,000 tons and carried four 12-inch guns and fourteen 6-inch guns. Her career belongs to Admiral Tōgō and one battle. As his flagship she fought at the Yellow Sea in August 1904, then on May 27, 1905, off Tsushima, Tōgō flew the Z flag from her mast and led the Japanese line through the famous turn across the head of the Russian column. In two days the Russian Baltic Fleet was annihilated, and Mikasa took 30-plus hits but stayed in the line. Four months later, with the war over, an accidental magazine explosion sank her at her moorings in Sasebo and killed 251 of her crew. She was refloated, served through the First World War, and was decommissioned under the Washington Naval Treaty in 1923. Preserved as a memorial at Yokosuka in 1925, stripped during the American occupation, and restored in 1958, she still sits in concrete at Yokosuka today. If you feel that this content in some way infringes on your own content please reach out to [email protected] #battleship #japan