armour of the earlier ships was too thin and wanted a modest increase in speed to partially counter the higher speeds of the latest foreign ships like the British s and Russian s. For financial reasons more powerful engines could not be ordered so the new design was lengthened slightly and the boiler rooms enlarged to increase speed by to . To save weight the forecastle deck was shortened so that the lower midships gun turret was lower than in the Fusō class. This reduced the crew's accommodations despite a significant increase in the crew's numbers and naval historian Fukui Shizuo believed that these ships had the worst habitability of any Japanese capital ship. The final design was designated A-92 by the IJN. The ships had a length of overall, a beam of and a draught of at deep load. They displaced at normal load and at deep load, roughly more than the preceding class. Their crew consisted of 1,360 officers and enlisted men. They had a metacentric height of at deep load. During the ships' modernization during the 1930s, their forward superstructures were enlarged with multiple platforms added to their tripod foremasts. Both ships were also given torpedo bulges to improve their underwater protection and to compensate for the weight of the additional armour. In addition, their sterns were lengthened by . These changes increased their overall length to , their beam to and their draft to . Their displacement increased over to at deep load. The crew now numbered 1,376 officers and enlisted men. Propulsion The Ise-class ships had two sets of direct-drive steam turbines, each of which drove two propeller shafts with propellers. The high-pressure turbines drove the wing shafts while the low-pressure turbines drove the inner shafts. The turbines were designed to produce a total of (Hyūga and Ise respectively), using steam provided by 24 Kampon Ro Gō water-tube boilers at working pressures of . Both ships comfortably exceeded their designed speed of during their sea trials; Ise reached from and Hyūga exceeded that with from . Each of the boilers consumed a mixture of coal and oil and the ships had a stowage capacity of of coal and of fuel oil, which gave them a range of at a speed of . Ise and Hyūga had three generators of capacity and two turbo generators at 225 volts. During their 1930s modernization, the boilers on each