The Japanese cruiser Asama in 1900
Career
Built:	Armstrong Whitworth, Great Britain
Ordered:	1897 Fiscal Year
Laid down	November 1896
Launched:	March 22 1898
Completed:	March 18 1899
Fate:	Scuttled August 5 1927
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,700 tons
Length:	124.36 meters
Beam:	20.45 meters
Draught:	7.43 meters
Propulsion:	2-shaft, 18,000 BHP
Speed:	21.5 knots
Range:
Complement:	726
Armament:	4 × 203 mm guns 14 × 152 mm guns 12 x 12 pdr guns 7 x 2.5 pdr guns 5 × 360 mm torpedo tubes
Armor:	88-180 mm main belt armor; 125 mm upper belt, 50 mm deck armor

The Asama (浅間) was the lead ship in an early class of armored cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was built by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick. The Asama was at the Battle of Tsushima, where she was damaged by gunfire and her steering gear was disabled. Due to poor maintenance, her speed deteriorated to 19 knots and she was fitted with new boilers and re-designated as a “First-class Coastal Defense Vessel” on 30 March 1930. On 1 July 1942, the old ship was designated as a training vessel. It survived the Pacific War, and was scrapped under the American occupation of Japan in 1947. Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_Japan. ... Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A torpedo in Rail terminology refers to a small explosive device strapped to the top of the rail to alert an approaching train of immediate danger ahead. ... Armored cruiser General-Admiral (1873) Armored cruiser USS Brooklyn (1898) Armored cruiser HMS Good Hope (1901) Armored cruiser SMS Blücher (1908) The armored cruiser was a naval cruiser protected by armor on its sides as well as on the decks and gun positions. ... Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. ... Elswick could be Elswick, Lancashire Elswick, Tyne and Wear This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Combatants Japan Russia Commanders Heihachiro Togo Zinovi Rozhdestvenski Nikolai Nebogatov Strength 4 battleships, 27 cruisers, in addition to destroyers and auxiliary vessels 8 battleships, 3 coastal battleships, 8 cruisers Casualties 117 dead, 583 injured, 3 torpedo boats sunk 4380 dead, 5917 injured 21 ships sunk, 7 captured, 6 disarmed The... Some knots: 1. ... US landings in the Pacific, 1942–1945 The Pacific War was the part of World War II that occurred in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, 1937 to 1945. ...

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