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The Imperial Japanese Navy (大日本帝国海軍) built four battlecruisers, with plans for an additional four, during the first decades of the 20th century. 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 ...
Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan Tsukuba-class armoured cruiser: 13,750 14 January 1907 14 January 1917; Accidental explosion Ikoma: Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan: Tsukuba-class armoured cruiser 13,750 28 March 1908 20 September 1923; Scrapped Ibuki: Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan: Ibuki-class armoured cruiser: 14,636 11 November 1907 20 September 1923 ...
During the war, the surviving battlecruisers saw extensive action, and many were sunk. The four Japanese Kongō-class ships had been rebuilt as fast battleships in the 1930s, but all were sunk during the conflict. [16] Of the three British battlecruisers still in service, HMS Hood and Repulse were sunk, but Renown survived the war.
The Amagi class (天城型, Amagi-gata) was a series of four battlecruisers planned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as part of the Eight-eight fleet in the early 1920s. The ships were to be named Amagi, Akagi, Atago, and Takao.
This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army. For a list of ships of its successor, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 and the battlecruiser Invincible the following year by the Royal Navy raised the stakes [9] and complicated Japan's plans as they rendered all existing battleships and armored cruisers obsolete, forcing Japan to restart the Eight-Eight plan with dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers.
List of battlecruisers of Japan This page was last edited on 27 August 2013, at 21:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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