The Japanese cruiser Iwate in 1905
Career
Built:	Armstrong Whitworth, Great Britain
Ordered:	1897 Fiscal Year
Laid down	November 1898
Launched:	March 29 1900
Completed:	March 18 1901
Fate:	Sunk by air attack July 26 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,750 tons
Length:	132.28 meters at waterline
Beam:	20.94 meters
Draught:	7.37 meters
Propulsion:	2-shaft, 14,500 BHP
Speed:	20.75 knots
Fuel:	1412 tons
Complement:	672
Armament:	4 × 203 mm guns 14 × 152 mm guns 12 x 12 pdr guns 8 x 2.5 pdr guns 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armor:	88-175 mm main belt armor; 125 mm upper belt; 67 mm deck armor; 150 mm turret, casement

The Iwate (岩手) was an armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in Great Britain, and served an important role in the Russo-Japanese War, including the crucial Battle of Tsushima. It was a sister ship of the Izumo. 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. ... 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. ... Insert non-formatted text here Combatants Imperial Russia Empire of Japan Strength 500,000 Soldiers 400,000 Soldiers Casualties 25,331 Killed 146,032 Wounded 47,387 Killed 173,425 Wounded Greater Manchuria, Russian (outer) Manchuria is region to upper right in lighter Red; Liaodong Peninsula is the wedge extending... 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...

Iwate was re-designated a “First-Class Coast Defense Vessel” on 01 September 1921. It was sunk in an American air attack on Kure [34.14N, 132.30E], 26 July 1945, and later raised and scrapped in 1947. Kure can refer to: Kure, Hiroshima (呉), a city in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan Kure Atoll Kure Beach Kure, Turkey This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

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