Protected Cruisers: Naniwa Class

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Brian James
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Protected Cruisers: Naniwa Class

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Launch Day for Naniwa Class Protected Cruiser IJNS Takachiho pictured at Armstrong Whitworth Shipyards,Elswick,Newcastle-upon-Tine on May 16th 1885.
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Re: Protected Cruisers: Naniwa Class

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Both built in the UK. NANIWA was wrecked in 1912.

Specs per net:

Name: NANIWA
Type: Cruiser
Keel: 27/03/1884
Launched: 18/03/1885
Completed: 01/12/1885
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 475
Dimensions: 3727disp, 300.0 x 46.0 x 18.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x 2cyl (30 & 44 x 85ins), 7120ihp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 18.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 10.2ins, 6 x 1 x 5.9ins, 2 x 1 x 6pdr, 10 x 1 Nordenfelt guns;
2 x 2 x 14.0ins torpedoes
History:
01/12/1885 Government of Japan
06/06/1912 Wrecked

Comments: Designed as enlarged & improved ESMERALDA
Main armament of 10.2 & 5.9ins guns supplied by Krupp of Germany
1900: 5.9ins guns replaced by Armstrong 6.0ins QF guns
1902: 10.2ins guns replaced by Armstrong 6.0ins QF guns
06/06/1912: Wrecked off Dratona Island in the Kuriles

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Launch Day for Lead Ship,Protected Cruiser IJNS Naniwa at Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd Shipyards,Elswick,Newcastle-upon-Tyne on March 18th 1885.
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Lead Ship,Protected Cruiser IJNS Naniwa pictured at Armstrong Whitworth Shipyards,Elswick,Newcastle-upon-Tyne,March 18th 1885.
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Naniwa Class Protected Cruiser Takachiho pictured at Sasebo on February 14th 1905. Built at Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company Ltd Shipyards, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1885... The revolutionary design of the 'Elswick' Protected Cruiser, initially developed as a private-venture by Armstrong Whitworth in the mid-1880s, and implemented in the Cruiser Esmeralda for the Chilean Navy (subsequently purchased by Japan as Izumi) was of great interest to Japan because of its high speed, powerful armament, armour protection and relatively low cost, especially since the Imperial Japanese Navy lacked the resources at the time to purchase modern Pre-Dreadnought Battleships. Pioneering Japanese naval architect Sasō Sachū requested that Armstrong Whitworth make modifications to the Esmeralda design to customize it for Japanese requirements, and two vessels, Naniwa and Takachiho were ordered under the 1883 fiscal year budget. When completed, Naniwa and Takachiho were considered the most advanced and most powerful Cruisers in the world.
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Lead Ship, Protected Cruiser Naniwa pictured under construction at Armstrong Whitworth's Low Walker Shipyard at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She was completed on February 15th 1886 and departed for Japan on March 28th with a Japanese crew under the command of Captain Itō Sukeyuki, the first warship purchased overseas to be brought to Japan with an entirely Japanese crew.
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