Japanese battleship Mikasa (Yokosuka)

Japan / Kanagawa / Yokosuka
 battleship, museum ship
Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-Dreadnought battleship, formerly of the Imperial Japanese Navy, launched in 1900. It served as the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro during the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Currently it is preserved as a museum ship at Yokosuka.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa
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Coordinates:   35°17'6"N   139°40'27"E

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  • World War 2 she was stripped of her guns but after she got them back but the Soviet Union wanted it to be scrapped becuase it was the flagship at the Battle of Tsushima which Russia lost.
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