day. Japanese service On 6 June 1905, she was taken into the Imperial Japanese Navy and renamed Iki, after Iki Island in the Sea of Japan, near the site of the Battle of Tsushima. She served as a gunnery training ship until 12 December 1910 when she was redesignated as a first-class coast defense ship and a training vessel. As Iki she was armed with her original 12-inch/30 caliber guns in a forward twin turret, six 6-inch/40 caliber Armstrong Pattern Z guns in single mounts, six 4.7-inch/40 caliber Armstrong Pattern T guns in single mounts, six 3-inch/40 caliber Armstrong N guns in single mounts and six 18-inch torpedoes. She was stricken 1 May 1915 and sunk as a target by the battlecruisers and , although Watts and Gordon say that she was scrapped in 1922. See also List of battleships of Japan Notes References Bibliography McTiernan, Mick, A Very Bad Place Indeed For a Soldier. The British involvement in the early stages of the European Intervention in Crete. 1897 – 1898, King's College, London, September 2014. External links Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships Ships built at Admiralty Shipyard 1889 ships Russo-Japanese War battleships of Russia Captured ships Maritime incidents in 1915 Ships sunk as targets Ships with Belleville boilers Naval ships captured by Japan during the Russo-Japanese War