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Azuma then developed engine problems and the Japanese squadron slowed to conform with her best speed. Firing recommenced at 06:24 and Rurik was hit three times in the stern, flooding her steering compartment; she had to be steered with her engines. Her speed continued to decrease, further exposing her to Japanese fire, and her steering jammed ...
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.'
Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan Mogami-class heavy cruiser: 13,440 28 July 1935 25 October 1944; Scuttled after Battle of the Surigao Strait: Mikuma: Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Mogami-class heavy cruiser 13,440 29 August 1935 6 June 1942; Sunk by USN aircraft, Battle of Midway: Suzuya: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan Mogami-class heavy cruiser 13,440 31 ...
Japanese cruiser Takao (1888) Takao-class cruiser; Japanese cruiser Takasago; Japanese cruiser Tatsuta (1894) Japanese cruiser Tone (1907) Japanese cruiser Tsugaru; Japanese cruiser Tsukuba; Japanese cruiser Tsukushi
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
coupled Ha-40 engines Mitsubishi: Ha-211: MK9 A20 Ha-43: Mitsubishi: Ha-214: MK10 Nakajima: Ha-219: NK11A BH Ha-44 Nakajima: Ha-315: Nakajima: Ha-505: D-BH Ha-54 projected 5,000 hp 36-cyl radial engine Aichi: AE1 Atsuta: license-built Daimler DB 601A Aichi: Ha-70: Coupled Atsuta engines Hiro: Hiro Type 14 500 hp Water Cooled W-12 Type 14: Hiro ...
Japanese cruiser Asama; Japanese cruiser Azuma; B. Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) C. Japanese cruiser Chihaya; Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1911) Japanese cruiser Chitose;
When the Imperial Japanese Army began sinking the Russian ships in Port Arthur with large-caliber howitzers in early December, Tōgō ordered the two cruisers home to refit. On 30 December, Asama and the armored cruiser Azuma were ordered north to the Tsugaru Strait. Before the Russian ships from the Baltic Fleet approached Japan, the two ...