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Azuma at anchor, Portsmouth, 1900 Class overview Operators Imperial Japanese Navy Preceded by Yakumo Succeeded by Kasuga class History Name Azuma Namesake Mount Azuma Ordered 12 October 1897 Builder Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France Laid down 1 February 1898 Launched 24 June 1899 Completed 28 July 1900 Reclassified As 1st class coast-defense ship, 1 September 1921 ...
Asama-class armoured cruiser 9,700 18 May 1899 9 August 1945; destroyed by USN aircraft at Ominato: Yakumo: Stettiner Vulcan AG, Germany: Armoured cruiser 9,646 20 June 1900 20 July 1946; scrapped Azuma: Saint-Nazaire shipyards, France Armoured cruiser 9,307 28 July 1900 15 February 1944; Scrapped Izumo: Armstrong Whitworth, UK Izumo-class ...
The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868–1945. [1] This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army.
At least three naval vessels of Japan have been named Azuma (sometimes transliterated (archaically) as Adzuma): Japanese ironclad Azuma, an ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Japanese cruiser Azuma, an armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy; JDS Azuma, a training ship launched in 1969
This category is for pages about names used by more than one ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Only disambiguation and shipindex pages (both used to detail multiple ships of the same name) should be included in this category.
Design B-65 was a class of cruisers planned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before and during World War II.The IJN referred to this design as a 'Super Type A' cruiser; It was larger than most heavy cruisers but smaller than most battlecruisers, and as such, has been variously described as a 'super-heavy cruiser,' a 'super cruiser,' or as a 'cruiser-killer.'
Pages in category "Cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy" ... Japanese cruiser Ashigara; Japanese cruiser Azuma; B. Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) C.
Individual ships (including those that are the only one to bear the name) should instead be categorised in Category:Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy or Category:Ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force or the relevant subcategory for the type of vessel.