Taoist battleship Tōnobe

Tōnobe in the Taoist Sea in 1922
Class overview
Builders:	Yakunai Naval Arsenal
Operators:	Republic of the Tao Navy Imperial Taoist Navy
Preceded by:	Iwanai-class
Succeeded by:	Sōsato-class
Built:	1915-1917
In commission:	1918-1946
Planned:	1
Completed:	1
History
Republic of the Tao
Name:	Tōnobe
Namesake:	Tōnobe river
Ordered:	1 January 1915
Laid down:	16 August 1915
Launched:	3 May 1917
Commissioned:	23 October 1918
Fate:	Claimed by the Empire of the Tao, 1927
Empire of the Tao
Name:	Tōnobe
Acquired:	23 April 1927
Commissioned:	23 April 1927
Decommissioned:	1 November 1947
Fate:	Taken as war prize by the Englean Kaiserreich
Englean Kaiserreich
Name:	SMBS Herrlicher Phönix
Namesake:	Beautiful Phoenix
Acquired:	23 November 1947
Decommissioned:	TBD
Fate:	TBD
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	31,760 tons
Length:	208.18 m (683.0 ft)
Beam:	28.65 m (94.0 ft)
Draught:	8.93 m (29.3 ft)
Installed power:	42,500 shp (31,700 kW)
Propulsion:	2 x Yakunai Naval Arsenal steam turbine sets 24 x Yakunai Naval Arsenal water-tube boilers
Speed:	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range:	9,680 nmi (17,930 km; 11,140 mi)
Complement:	1,360 enlisted and officers
Armament:	12 × 356 mm (14 in) guns (6x2) 20 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns (20x1) 8 × 76.2 mm (3 in) dual-purpose guns (4x2) 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2x3)
General characteristics (1934 reconstruction)
Displacement:	42,675 tons
Length:	216 m (709 ft)
Beam:	31.75 m (104.2 ft)
Draught:	9.45 m (31.0 ft)
Installed power:	80,000 shp (60,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 x Yakunai Naval Arsenal steam turbines 8 x Yakunai Naval Arsenal water-tube boilers
Speed:	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range:	7,870 nmi (14,580 km; 9,060 mi)
Complement:	1,376 enlisted and officers
Armament:	12 × 356 mm (14 in) guns (6x2) 16 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns (16x1) 8 × 127 mm (5 in) dual-purpose guns (4x2) 20 × 25 mm (1 in) AA guns (10x2)
Aircraft carried:	Up to 3
Aviation facilities:	1 aircraft catapult

Tōnobe was an dreadnought battleship built for the Republic of the Tao Navy (RTN) during the late 1910s. While the ship was designed to be built as a full class of ships, this was determined as "unnecessary". The Republic of the Tao had felt that the Iwanai-class battleship was almost as capable as the Tōnobe-class, and construction could be started on more ships of the older class immediately. It is unknown how many of this class the RTN planned to build, but it is known that three additional Iwanai class battleships were built instead.