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Azuma at anchor, Portsmouth, 1900 Class overview Operators Imperial Japanese Navy Preceded by Yakumo Succeeded by Kasuga class History Name Azuma Namesake Mount Azuma Ordered 12 October 1897 Builder Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France Laid down 1 February 1898 Launched 24 June 1899 Completed 28 July 1900 Reclassified As 1st class coast-defense ship, 1 September 1921 ...
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.'
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 armoured cruiser: 9,750 25 September 1900 24 July 1945; destroyed at mooring by USN aircraft at Kure Iwate: Armstrong Whitworth, UK
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
Pages in category "Cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy" ... Japanese cruiser Ashigara; Japanese cruiser Azuma; B. Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) C.
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 ...
Japanese cruiser Asama; Japanese cruiser Azuma; B. Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) C. Japanese cruiser Chihaya; Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1911) Japanese cruiser Chitose;
[18] [36] On 31 December, the cruiser struck a mine in Lingayen Gulf while supporting Japanese forces during the Philippines Campaign. During this period, Iwate was still serving as a training ship in home waters. The sisters were briefly re-classified as 1st-class cruisers on 1 July 1942 [18] [19] before they became training ships in 1943.