At the time of her delivery, "Mikasa" was a state of the art vessel of the pre-dreadnought era, achieving an unprecedented combination of firepower and protective strength.
At the time of her delivery, "Mikasa" was a state of the art vessel of the pre-dreadnought era. The "Formidable" class, first ship commissioned September 1901, had quite the same combination of firepower and protective strength.