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Armoured Cruiser Yakumo pictured at San Francisco in June 1936.
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Kasuga Class Armoured Cruiser Nisshin pictured post refit at Sasebo on February 17th 1905. At the subsequent Battle of Tsushima on May 26th 1905, Nisshin was flagship of Vice-Admiral Misu Sotarō.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Kasuga pictured moored at Etajima, Hiroshima Bay on March 14th 1904 after the round trip from Italy to Yokosuka...Built at Gio. Ansaldo & Company Shipyards, Sestri Ponente, where the type was known as the Giuseppe Garibaldi Class. She was originally ordered by the Royal Italian Navy as Mitra in 1901 and sold in 1902 to the Argentine Navy who renamed her Bernardino 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 she was offered to both sides before she was purchased by Japan. On January 1st 1904. Kasuga and her newly renamed sister Nisshin were formally turned over to Japan and commissioned on January 7th. The sisters departed Genoa on January 9th under the command of British captains and manned by British seamen and Italian stokers. When they arrived at Port Said, Egypt, five days later, they encountered the Russian Protected Cruiser Aurora and reached Suez on the 16th, accompanied by the British Armored Cruiser King Alfred. The Japanese ships reached Singapore on February 2nd...Kasuga and Nisshin reached Yokosuka on February 16th just as Japan initiated hostilities with its surprise attack on Port Arthur, and began working up with Japanese crews.
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Ibuki Class Armoured Cruiser Kurama pictured at Kure Naval Arsenal on June 18th 1913...In the background, also belching anthracite is Lead Ship, the ill fated Dreadnought Battleship Kawachi.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Ibuki pictured on sea trials in Hiroshima Bay c 1907...On August 28th 1912, the Ibukis were re-classified as Battlecruisers....
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Originally built at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer at Toulon in 1900.....Sunk on December 9th 1904 during the siege of Port Arthur....Salvaged and repaired, Bayan Class Armoured Cruiser now in service with the IJN as Aso, pictured at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on July 22nd 1908.
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The worn out ASAMA, post WW2. She was still considered a IJN "warship", so scrapping was her fate.

She certainly looked much better a couple of decades earlier even tho she was elderly and no longer a front line warship! DFO
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Armoured Cruiser Yakumo pictured at Port Melbourne in 1928.
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Izumo Class Armoured Cruiser Iwate pictured at Port Melbourne in 1924.
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Lead Ship, Armoured Cruiser Asama pictured at Boston in 1927.
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