Japanese Battleship Aki

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Aki was a semi-dreadnought type battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built in Japan by the Kure Naval Arsenal. The name Aki comes from Aki Province, now a part of Hiroshima prefecture. Funding for Aki was approved as part of the 1904 Emergency Budget for the Russo-Japanese War, and was the second battleship (after Satsuma) to be designed and built domestically in Japan. Due to priority given to the completion of the cruiser Tsukuba, construction of Aki took ten months longer than planned, but this allowed for various design defects discovered in the construction of Satsuma to be rectified in Aki.

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