Designed Indicated Trial
speed. horse-power. result.
Asama 22 knots 19,000 = 22 knots.
Tokiwa ” (?) = 22.7 ”
Idzumo 20.75 knots 15,739 = 22.04 ”
Iwate ” (?) = 21.8 ”
Yakumo 20 knots 15,500 = 20.7 ”
Azuma 21 knots 18,000 = 21 ”
The first two have a pair of funnels only.
The ships are very good ones, equal in many ways to second-class
battleships, but not calculated to stand battleship fire, I fancy.
The Kasuga and Nisshin were launched for Argentina in 1902 and 1903
respectively, by Messrs. Ansalds, of Genoa, Italy. They were purchased
by Japan immediately before the war with Russia.