Japanese cruiser Hashidate
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Hashidate was the third in the Matsushima class of protected cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was the only one of the class constructed in Japan. Like sister ships, her name comes from
Hashidate in a 1904 postcard.
Armour and armament sketch of Itsukushima and Hashidate
In 1916 at Yokosuka
The Battle of the Yalu River was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War, and took place on 17 September 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Battle of Pyongyang. T
Japanese cruiser Hashidate
…repaired after having failed in testing. Hashidate was rushed into service just prior to the start of the First Sino-Japanese War and saw combat in the Battle of the Yalu River under the command of Commander Hidaka Sōnojō. Assigned in fourth place in the Japanese line of battle, after Matsushima, Chiyoda and Itsukushima, the…
Japanese troops firing at Qing ships at the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Kobayashi Kiyochika
Illustration from the French newspaper Le Petit Journal, showing survivors from Kowshing being rescued by sailors from the French ship Le Lion
![Japanese print depicting Matsushima (left) attacking Chinese warships, Shunsai Toshimasa [ja], 1894](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Kobayashi_Sojiro_-_Waga_kantai_daishori_-_Kaiyoto_oki_ni_tekikan_o_uchishizumu_-_Walters_95688.jpg/500px-Kobayashi_Sojiro_-_Waga_kantai_daishori_-_Kaiyoto_oki_ni_tekikan_o_uchishizumu_-_Walters_95688.jpg)
Japanese print depicting Matsushima (left) attacking Chinese warships, Shunsai Toshimasa [ja], 1894
The Japanese warship Saikyōmaru at the Battle of the Yalu River, Hasegawa Chikuyō, 1894