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Protected cruiser 3,080 20 August 1906 prize of war 1 April 1913; Scrapped Soya: William Cramp & Sons, United States Protected cruiser 6,500 9 July 1907 prize of war 5 April 1916; Returned to Russia Tsugaru: Admiralty Shipyard, Russia: Protected cruiser 6,932 22 August 1908 prize of war 1 April 1922; Decommissioned; scuttled 1923 Yodo: Kawasaki ...
The battlecruiser was an outgrowth of the armoured cruiser concept, which had proved highly successful against the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima at the end of the Russo-Japanese War. In the aftermath, the Japanese immediately turned their focus to the two remaining rivals for imperial dominance in the Pacific Ocean: Britain and ...
The 6th Cruiser Division (第六巡洋戦隊, Dai-roku Junyō Sentai) (CruDiv6) was a cruiser division of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) that played a prominent role during the early stages of the Pacific War. The unit operated the four oldest heavy cruisers of IJN: two Furutaka-class and two Aoba-class.
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. Patton, Wayne (2006). Japanese Heavy Cruisers in World War II. Squadron Signal Publications. ISBN 0-89747-498-8. Skulski, Janusz (2004). The Heavy Cruiser Takao. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-974-3. Watts, Anthony J. (1967). Japanese Warships of World War II ...
The class would see heavy service throughout the Pacific war.Mere days after the Pearl Harbor attack, Chōkai would serve with the naval task force that trailed the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse for a potential surface action, but she did not manage to engage the pair before they were sunk by land-based torpedo bombers.
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. Model Art Ship Modelling Special No.29, 5,500 tons class cruisers, Model Art Co. Ltd. (Japan), September 2008, Book code 12319-09
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. Masahide Asai, Ship name examination of the Japanese Navy (日本海軍 艦船名考,, Nihon Kaigun Kansenmeikou), Tōkyō Suikōsha (fringe organization of the Ministry of the Navy), December 1928; Mauch, Peter (2011).
Aoba (青葉) was the lead ship in the two-vessel Aoba class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy.Launched in 1926 and heavily modernized in 1938-40, Aoba initially served as a patrol craft, largely along the China coast, and saw extensive service during World War II.