As noted, Admiral
Togo’s First Battle Division consisted of four battleships (BBs) and two
armored cruisers (ACs). At the outbreak of the war (Feb. 8, 1904), the First
Battle Division had consisted of six BBs, but the battleships Hatsuse and Yashima had been lost to mines. Togo had disguised this fact by
substituting the powerful armored cruisers Kasuga
and Nisshin for the lost battleships.
These two armored cruisers were referred to as “counterfeit battleships.”
The photos above
show my 1:2400 Panzerschiffe models of the Kasuga
and Nisshin.
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