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Izumo-class armoured cruiser 9,750 18 March 1901 26 July 1945; destroyed at mooring by USN aircraft at Kure: Kasuga: Gio. Ansaldo & C., Italy: Kasuga-class armoured cruiser: 7,680 4 January 1904 18 July 1945; destroyed at mooring by USN aircraft at Yokosuka: Nisshin: Gio. Ansaldo & C., Italy Kasuga-class armoured cruiser 7,689 7 January 1904
Pages in category "World War II cruisers of Japan" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. ... Japanese cruiser Kako; Japanese cruiser Kashii;
Right elevation and plan of the Ibuki-class cruisers from Brassey's Naval Annual 1915; the shaded areas represent armor. The Ibuki-class ships were originally ordered during the Russo-Japanese War, on 31 January 1905, as Tsukuba-class armored cruisers. Before construction began, however, they were redesigned to incorporate 8-inch (203 mm) guns ...
The Japanese cruiser Ibuki (伊吹) was a heavy cruiser built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.The lead ship of her class of two ships, she was ordered to be converted into a light aircraft carrier in 1943 before completion to help replace the aircraft carriers sunk during the Battle of Midway in mid-1942.
The elderly Russian armored cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi was spotted shortly before 18:00 and Asama was ordered by Tōgō to join the pursuit in support of the protected cruisers of the 4th Division. By the time the cruiser met up with the 4th Division, night had fallen and Dmitrii Donskoi had taken refuge in shallow water.
This list of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. It includes submarines , battleships , oilers , minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime.
The ship was armored with a 127 mm (5 in) side belt, and 35 mm (1 in) armored deck; the bridge was armored with 10 to 16 mm (0.39 to 0.63 in) armored plates. [ 2 ] Takao ’s main battery was ten 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns , the heaviest armament of any heavy cruiser in the world at the time, mounted in five twin turrets. [ 2 ]
The Izumo-class cruisers (出雲型装甲巡洋艦, Izumo-gata sōkōjun'yōkan) were a pair of armored cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships itself, the vessels were built in Britain.