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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.'
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 ...
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
(Japanese Cypress) Mar 1944 Sep 1944 Surface action off Manila Bay, Jan 1945 ‡ Kaede (Maple) Mar 1944 Oct 1944 To Rep. of China, Jul 1947 Kashi (Live Oak) May 1944 Sep 1944 Scrapped 1947 Kaya (Japanese Nutmeg-Yew) Apr 1944 Sep 1944 To USSR, Jul 1947 Keyaki (Japanese Elm) Jun 1944 Dec 1944 Sunk as target, 1947 Kiri (Paulownia Hardwood) Feb 1944
All of Kamimura's ships engaged her for five minutes or so with Azuma and the armored cruiser Yakumo also firing torpedoes at the Russian ship without effect. [ 25 ] After 17:30 Kamimura led his division in a fruitless pursuit of some of the Russian cruisers, leaving Tōgō's battleships to their own devices.
Japanese ironclad Azuma, ... Japanese cruiser Azuma, an armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Other uses. Azuma's inequality, result in probability theory;
Pages in category "Cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy" ... Japanese cruiser Ashigara; Japanese cruiser Azuma; B. Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) C.