Model Ship Plan Japanese Battleship Shikishima

Model Ship Plan Japanese Battleship Shikishima

The model plan for Japanese battleship Shikishima

Country: Japan, 1900
Scale of plan: 1:200
Scale of details: 1:100; 1:50
Quantity of sheets: 13 (A3 format)(11,7x16,5)

Produced by the publishing house Private Military Historical Archives.

Nowadays the publishing house Private Military Historical Archives is the only one in Russian Federation that issues the ship drawing plans. All the plans are absolutely unique and authentic; they are not reproduced by anyone in the world. These plans are made by the technology of computer retrospective method based on the real Russian State Navy Archives materials.
There are no doubts that these plans will be useful and attractive for those, who are interesting in history, the specific information about Russian ships and also for ship models builders because you can build the REAL ship using these materials.
All the plans are issued in A3 format albums.

Prototype

The Japanese battleship was built in England in 1900. She took part in the blockading of Port Arthur and in the Battle of Tsushima.

Shikishima () was the lead ship in the Shikishima-class of pre-dreadnought battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and one of the six battleships (Fuji, Yashima, Hatsuse, Shikishima, Asahi, and Mikasa) that formed the main Japanese battle line in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
Following the 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War, and the forced return of the Liaotung Peninsula to China under Russian pressure, Japan began to build up its military strength in preparation for further confrontations. In particular, Japan embarked on a ten-year naval build-up program, with the construction of six battleships and six armored cruisers at its core. The Shikishima was ordered to Thames Iron Works, Great Britain in 1897. She was designed by Phillip Watts and was basically an improved version of the British Navy's Majestic-class.

Shikishima served in the Russo-Japanese War, was damaged in the bombardment of Port Arthur, fighting at the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and taking 10 hits at the Battle of Tsushima.

Shikishima later served in Japanese home waters during WWI. Refitted in 1919, she was de-rated to First-class Coast Defense Ship in 1921 and relegated to training duties the same year. Disarmed under the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty, she was used as a training school for submarine crews after 1923. She was then designated as a transport, and then officially stricken from the navy list, but remained at Sasebo as a damage control hulk, accommodation ship, and training center.

She was still afloat after the Pacific War, somehow escaping American air attacks, but had not moved under her own power for over two decades. She was broken up for scrap in 1948.

General characteristics

Displacement:       15,453 tons
Length:       126.5 meters at waterline,
133.5 meters overall
Beam: 23.0 meters
Draught:     8.29 meters
Propulsion:  Two Shaft Reciprocating Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) Engines; 2 shafts, 25 Belleville boilers, 14,500 shp
Fuel:  Coal, 1900 tons
Speed:        15 knots
Complement:         836
Armament:  4-12 inch gun (2x2),
14-6 inch gun (1x14),
20-12 pdr QF gun (1x20),
6-3 pdr gun (1x6),
6-2.5 pdr gun (1x6),
4-45 cm torpedo tubes,
2-3" AA added 1917
Armor:        belt 100-230mm,
upper belt 150mm,
deck 63-100mm,
barbette 200-360mm,
casemate 50-150mm,
conning tower 75-360mm