Japanese ironclad Fusō

	Fusō as completed
History
Japan
Name	Fusō (Japanese: 扶桑)
Namesake	Classical name for Japan
Ordered	24 September 1875
Builder	Samuda Brothers, Cubitt Town, London
Laid down	24 September 1875?
Launched	17 April 1877
Completed	January 1878
Reclassified	Coast defense ship, December 1905
Stricken	1 April 1908
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1909
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Central-battery ironclad
Displacement	3,717 long tons (3,777 t)
Length	220 ft (67.1 m)
Beam	48 ft (14.6 m)
Draft	18 ft 5 in (5.6 m)
Installed power	3,500 ihp (2,600 kW); 8 cylindrical boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 trunk steam engines
Sail plan	Barque rigged
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	295
Armament	4 × 240 mm (9.4 in) Krupp guns; 2 × 17 cm RK L/25 (6.8 in) Krupp guns; 4 × long 75 mm (3.0 in) guns; 2 × short 75 mm (3.0 in) guns;
Armor	Belt: 6.4–9 in (163–229 mm); Battery: 9 in (229 mm); Bulkheads: 8 in (203 mm);

Fusō (扶桑) was a central-battery ironclad built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1870s. She was built in the United Kingdom because such ships could not yet be constructed in Japan. The ship participated in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 where she was damaged during the Battle of the Yalu River in 1894 and participated in the Battle of Weihaiwei in early 1895. She collided with two Japanese ships during a storm and sank in 1897. She was refloated the following year and repaired. Fusō played a minor role in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 and was reclassified as a coast defense ship after the war. She was struck from the Navy List in 1908 and sold for scrap the following year.

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