Battleship MIKASA --- Fame's Ups and Downs...

Japan Imperial Navy's battleship MIKASA, is a famous ship, which helped win a famous and decisive sea-battle, in 1905, against the Russian Navy.  Details here.

Here is how MIKASA looked, in its glorious, operational days:

However, decades later, after Japan lost World War II (or, the "Pacific War", as is used in Tokyo), MIKASA fell onto hard times, and had its guns stripped, and it served as the platform for tourism, hosting a dance hall and an aquarium...

  

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy, led by ADM(Ret) Nimitz, supported a public initiative to renovate & restore MIKASA to its former glory.

In 2009, the NIMITZ-TOGO connection was reinforced.

Nowadays, MIKASA is a proud symbol of Japan's naval heritage...