About this ship
The Satsuma class （Satsuma, Aki） was a pair of semi-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
They were originally intended to mount a dozen 12-inch (305 mm) gun in four twin and four single-gun turrets, but the combination of a shortage of Japanese-built 12-inch guns and their additional expense caused the ships to be redesigned to carry four 12-inch and twelve 10-inch (254 mm) guns, all in twin-gun turrets. The intended armament of these ships, laid down before HMS Dreadnought, would have made them the first "all big-gun" battleships in the world had they been completed to their original design.
IJN Satsuma, was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 15 May 1905. She was launched on 15 November 1906 with Emperor Meiji, the Navy Minister, and other high officials on hand for the ceremony, and completed on 25 March 1910. At the time of her launching, Satsuma had the largest displacement of any battleship in the world. Aki was laid down at Kure Naval Arsenal on 15 March 1906. She was launched on 15 April 1907.
They saw no combat during World War I, although Satsuma led a squadron that occupied several German colonies in the Pacific Ocean in 1914. Both ships were disarmed and expended as targets in 1922–1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
Both ships were disarmed at Yokosuka in 1922, stricken from the Navy List during 1923 and converted into target ships. Aki was sunk by the battlecruiser Kongō and the battleship Hyūga in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1924; Satsuma was sunk by the battleships Nagato and Mutsu five days later in the same area
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