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Kasuga-class armoured cruiser 7,689 7 January 1904 18 January 1942; scuttled 1936 Tsukuba: 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 ...
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
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 Imperial Japanese Navy had developed a standardized design for light cruisers as flagships for destroyer and submarine squadrons, based on a 5,500 ton displacement, shortly after World War I. However, by the 1930s these vessels were obsolete, as contemporary destroyers were faster, carried more powerful armament, and had greater endurance.
Russo-Japanese War cruisers of Japan (1 C, 30 P) World War I cruisers of Japan (33 P) World War II cruisers of Japan (53 P) C.
The order for these ships and four battleships of the Kii class put an enormous strain on the Japanese government, which by that time was spending a full third of its budget on the navy. [19] Akagi was the first ship to be laid down ; construction began on 6 December 1920 at the naval yard in Kure .
The Ibuki-class (伊吹型, Ibuki-gata) cruisers were the last class of heavy cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). In order to save design time, the ships were essentially repeats of the earlier Mogami class .
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