Japanese Cruiser Yahagi (1911)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yahagi was the second vessel in the Chikuma-class of second class light cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yahagi had two sister ships, Chikuma and Hirado. Yahagi was named after the Yahagi River, which runs through Nagano, Gifu and Aichi prefectures. Designed shortly after the Russo-Japanese War, it combined fairly heavy armament and displacement with newly-developed Parsons-type turbine engines, which gave it an incredible (for the time) 27.14 knot speed. However, problems with material strength in the gears of the new engines created a maintenance nightmare, and the Yahagi could seldom live up to its potential.

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