Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Azuma (吾妻) (sometimes transliterated (archaically) as Adzuma) was an armored cruiser (Sōkō jun'yōkan) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships itself, the ship was built in France.
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.'
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
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.
He was assigned to the cruiser Azuma shortly before the start of the Russo-Japanese War. He subsequently served with the 15th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, and was on board the cruiser Kasagi during the Battle of Tsushima on May 26, 1905.
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.
Japanese cruiser Asama; Japanese cruiser Azuma; B. Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) C. Japanese cruiser Chihaya; Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1911) Japanese cruiser Chitose;