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Izumo Class Armoured Cruiser Iwate pictured with her quarterdeck awning and curtains rigged for a cocktail party reception at Boston in 1927.
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Armoured Cruiser Yakumo pictured c1905. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, the ship was built by AG Vulcan Stettin in Germany in 1900. 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. She 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, but she continued to conduct training in home waters throughout the Pacific War. She became a Repatriation Transport after the war and was broken up in 1946–47.
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Amoured Cruiser Azuma pictured c1900.Laid down at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire,Saint Nazaire in 1898,launched in 1899 and completed in 1900.
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Japanese Crewmen pictured as they row towards their ship,Armoured Cruiser Ibuki.To the left is Lead Ship Armoured Cruiser HMS Minotaur,Wellington Harbour NZ,1914.
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A nice view of IBUKI's aft turret.......maybe after the crew rowed back to her?? ;)

Her construction was delayed due to trouble building the turbines, but her sister still used old style expansion engines with no delay. Photos seem rather rare, in the West at least, but here is one more plus a very nice model. DFO
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Asama Class Armoured Cruiser Tokiwa pictured as she passes the anchored Northampton Class Heavy Cruiser USS Houston on the Huangpu River,Shanghai in February 1932
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The ASAMA coaling and as a battered wreck at WW 2s end..............DFO
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Armoured Cruiser Kasuga pictured post the Battle of Tsushima at Sasebo in May 1905. Built by Gio. Ansaldo & Company Shipyards in Sestri Ponente in 1902 where the type was known as the Giuseppe Garibaldi Class. She was originally ordered by the Royal Italian Navy as RM Mitra in 1901 and sold in 1902 to the Argentine Navy who renamed her Bernadino Rivadavia during the Argentine-Chilean naval arms race, but the lessening of tensions with Chile and financial pressures caused the Argentinians to sell her before delivery. At that time tensions between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire were rising, and the ship was offered to both sides before she was purchased by the Japanese.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, Kasuga participated in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and was lightly damaged during the subsequent Battle of Tsushima. In addition, she frequently bombarded the defenses of Port Arthur. She played a limited role in World War I and was used to escort Allied convoys and search for German commerce raiders in the Indian Ocean and Australasian waters. She became a Training Ship in the late 1920s and was then disarmed and hulked in 1942 for use as a Barracks Ship. She capsized shortly before the end of World War II in 1945 and was salvaged three years later and broken up for scrap.
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Lead Ship,Armoured Cruiser Asama pictured at Wellington, NZ.
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ASAMA at Kure, Fall 1945. A wreck but still more afloat than most IJN units by then! :o DFO
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