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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Iwate pictured at Wellington, NZ in 1914..She served in World War I, participating in the hunt for the German Light Cruiser SMS Emden. She escorted a convoy of 10 Troop Transports carrying the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, crossing the Tasman Sea with the British Protected Cruiser HMS Pyramus and Armoured Cruiser HMS Minotaur to Albany, Western Australia in November. Together with the Australian Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney, Ibuki escorted the ANZACs, consisting of 20,000 men and 7,500 horses.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Ibuki pictured undergoing gunnery trials in Hiroshima Bay on October 12th 1909...She was refitted at Kure in 1918, disarmed in 1922, and stricken from the Navy List the following year and scrapped in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty. Her 12-inch 41st Year Type 12 inch guns (built at Elswick Ordnance Company) were turned over to the Imperial Japanese Army which emplaced one main-gun turret in the Tsugaru Strait between Honshu and Hokkaido and another in the Hōyo Strait in 1929.
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Ibuki Class Armoured Cruiser Kurama pictured under construction on slipway No 3 at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on October 18th 1907, three days before her launch..Shortly after commissioning, Kurama, with Admiral Hayao Shimamura aboard, was sent on a voyage to the UK to attend the Coronation Fleet Review for King George V at Spithead on June 25th 1911...Kurama served in World War I as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort, protecting British merchant shipping in the South Pacific, and (together with the Battlecruisers Kongō and Hiei ) supporting the landings to occupy German-held Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands. In the 1920s, she was assigned to the northern fleet, covering the landings of Japanese troops in Russia during the Siberian Intervention in support of White Russian forces...After the war, Kurama fell victim to the Washington Naval Treaty and was scrapped on September 20th 1923.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Asama pictured at Port Melbourne in 1924.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Ibuki pictured in Hiroshima Bay on June 23rd 1910.... On August 28th 1912, the Ibukis were re-classified as Battlecruisers...After the war, Ibuki fell victim to the Washington Naval Treaty and was sold for scrap on September 20th 1923. Her 12 inch guns were salvaged and used in shore batteries at Hakodate in Hokkaidō and along the Tsugaru Strait separating Honshū and Hokkaidō.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Yakumo pictured at Port Melbourne in 1928.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Ibuki pictured at Kure Naval Arsenal on December 26th 1915.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Yakumo pictured at Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin Shipyards c1900..She participated in most of the naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was lightly damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and the Battle of Tsushima. Yakumo saw no combat during World War I and began the first of many training cruises in 1917, although she was not officially reclassified as a Training Ship until 1931. Her last training cruise was in 1939, she continued to conduct training in home waters throughout the Pacific War. Yakumo became a repatriation transport after the war and was broken up in 1946–47.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Ibuki pictured at Kure Naval Arsenal whilst having her armament and armour removed under provisions of the Washington Treaty on Naval disarmament. This work began on October 15th 1923; she was sold in April 1924 to Kawasaki for scrapping. Breaking up was completed December 9th 1924.
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Armoured Cruiser Yakumo pictured in her role as a Training Ship whilst visiting Melbourne in July 1928.
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