Japan’s First Dreadnought, Aki

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 18.

Japan’s First Dreadnought, Aki

The first Japanese Dreadnought, Aki, has been launched. Its displacement is 19,750 tons; speed, 20.2 knots; armor, belt 9 inches, main gun positions 10 to 8 inches; armament, 4 forty-five caliber 12-inch guns, 12 forty-five caliber 10-inch, 12 forty-five caliber 6-inch; 5 submerged torpedo tubes. The distribution of her guns is considered defective. The turbine engines and propellers are of American design and manufacture. The Aki is 492 feet long, 84 feet broad, and has a draft of 28¾ feet. The mate to the Aki, the Satsuma, is practically complete.