List of battleships of Japan
Asahi
Table:
Ship

Armament

Armor

Displacement

Propulsion

Service

Laid down

Commissioned

Fate

Asahi
(朝日)

4 × 12 in (305 mm)[31]

9 in (229 mm)[46]

15,200 long tons (15,400 t)[34]

2 shafts, 2 steam engines, 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)[51][34]

1 August 1897[52]

31 July 1900[48]

Sunk by USS Salmon, 25–26 May 1942[47]

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