Pictures of the Memorial ship Mikasa.

For your information. Recent pictures.

Yuzuru Hiraga Digital Archive reopened.

This Archive had closed due to security problem in May, 2014.
But, on 10th Oct., 2014, it reopened.

New URL is below.

 http://gazo.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hiraga2/

That's good news.

Several pictures (For Your Information)

For Your Information.

This picture was taken on 17th July, 1904. About 50 men of members of the Diet and correspondents visited the Mikasa and the Asahi.

Aft 12-inch guns of the Mikasa, at Portsmouth. (Postcard)

12-inch guns of the Asahi.  (Shashin-Gahou)

12-inch guns of the Shikishima. ("ARTILLERY AND EXPLOSIVES" Plate XXXI.)

A Happy New Year! (Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu)

Mikasa , 1st, Jan., 2014

A happy new year! 

The memorial ship Mikasa is open.

Positions of 47mm 2.5pdr quick firing guns on aft bridge deck at Battle of Tsushima.

According to one photograph of the Mikasa*1, it is probable that positions of 47mm 2.5pdr quick firing guns on aft bridge deck were ;

[Plan of aft bridge. showing positions of 47mm 2.5pdr QF guns on Feb., 2nd, 1905. ]

I can not reprint the photo, so I will show them with a sketch.

[Part of the photo. looking forward ]

*1 : Library of Yamato museum material# PG049770 (taken on Feb., 2nd, 1905).
      or
      The magazine "世界の艦船 ( SHIPS OF THE WORLD) , April, 1969, No.140"

COALING HATCH on boat deck

[Upper deck, midship , port, under boat deck. ]

(1) Coaling hatch on boat deck

(2) Upper deck , midship. The plate on the deck seems to be a protection from bags of coal falling through the coaling hatch(1) .

Drawing (1) and (2) are from "PLANS OF SHIPS OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY - HISTORY OF SHIPBUILDING IN SHOWA ERA"(published in 1975) . It was only one of commerce in fine size in Japan. Unfortunately, the drawing is not clear. But recently EAGLEMOSS distributed clear drawings.

So I can see almost characters on the drawings now. 

About ventilators(2)

Hello Mr.DariusP,
Sorry, I'm late.

Yes, your red line is correct.

But returning to vents... From all the drawings at JACAR I think that closes to to the reality are drawings of this vent (what vent is it BTW?):

The drawing shows damage of the rear port vent of the engine room, after the Battle of Tsushima.
JACAR ref.  C05110130600 - 100th image also shows damage of rear starboard vent.

Mikasa's rear starboard vent of engine room, after the Battle of Tsushima.

In one of Russian publications there are some photos of Mikasa at Sasebo undergoing repairs after Tsushima. Those photos are high resolution close-ups and are probably one of the best sources of information about Mikasa's in 1905 that I have seen so far: download/file.php?id=60072&mode=viewDo you, by any chance, know where they got those photos from?

I don't know real source of the Russian book, but these photos can be seen in several magazines or books published in Japan. For example, the top photo of the Russian book is in magazine "世界の艦船 写真集 日本軍艦史 1.明治編 増刊( SHIPS OF THE WORLD, photograph collection, History of Japanese warships of the Meiji era )  extra number July, 1976, No.229" and some other books, and other photos are in "海軍艦艇史1 戦艦・巡洋艦 ( JAPANESE NAVAL VESSELS ILLUSTRATED, 1869-1945)" published in 1980,  or "写真日本海軍全艦艇史 Fukui Shizuo Collection" (ISBN 4584170541)  published in 1994.

The magazine "SHIPS OF THE WORLD", extra number July, 1976, No.229

 JAPANESE NAVAL VESSELS ILLUSTRATED, 1869-1945, Vol.1 Battleships & Battle Cruisers.

As to "Fukui Shizuo Collection" (ISBN 4584170541), please refer to link below;

http://www.amazon.co.jp/写真日本海軍全艦艇史-福井静夫/dp/4584170541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370053149&sr=8-1&keywords=4584170541

Yamato Museum (http://www.yamato-museum.com/en/) possesses now a good many original photos of them except the top photo in the Russian book.