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Historical:

The Shikishima class was a two-ship class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, they were designed and built in the UK. The ships participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including theBattle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Hatsuse sank after striking two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904. Shikishima fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushimaand was lightly damaged in the latter action, although shells prematurely exploded in the barrels of her main guns in each battle. The ship was reclassified as a coastal defence shipin 1921 and served as a training ship for the rest of her career. She was disarmed andhulked in 1923 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948.

Info: Shikishima-class Battleship IJN, Shikishima, 1900 Diecast Model in the CLAMSHELL PACKAGING ONLY!