470ft Japanese navy ship squeezes under Tower Bridge and sails up the Thames

A 470ft-long Japanese navy ship has sailed up the Thames and into London. 

JDS Kashima, which is on port call in London until Wednesday afternoon, passed under Tower Bridge at 1pm Sunday July 31,2016 and moored alongside HMS Belfast.

The ship is used for training Japanese sailors and is armed with a single Otobreda 76mm gun and two triple 324mm torpedo tube sets.

It also carries four saluting cannons, holds a crew of 370 cadets and is powered by two Mitsubishi S16U-MTK diesel engines.