The cruiser Naniwa | | Career |
 | | Built: | Armstrong, Great Britain | | Ordered: | 1883 | | Laid down | March 27th, 1884 | | Launched: | March 18th, 1885 | | Completed: | December 1st, 1885 | | Commissionned: | 1885 | | Decommissionned: | August 5th, 1912 | | Fate: | Grounded. | | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 3,650 tons | | Length: | 91.4 m | | Beam: | 14 m | | Draught: | 6.1 m | | Propulsion: | 7,000 HP
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| | Speed: | 18.5 knots | | Range: | | | Complement: | 325 | | Armament: | - 2x 26cm guns
- 6x 15cm guns
- 2x 6 pound guns
- 10 Nordenfeldt guns
- 4 Gatling guns
- 4x 38cm torpedo tubes
| | Armor: | 50-75mm | The Naniwa (Japanese:浪速) was an 1885 cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. USS Port Royal, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, launched in 1994. ...
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She was designed by the Japanese naval architect Sasō Sachū on the line of the Elswick class of protected cruisers but with superior specifications, and ordered to British shipwards. Jump to: navigation, search Elswick is a ward of the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in the western part of the borough, bordering the river Tyne. ...
Naniwa was a 3,650 tons ships, capable of speed up to 18 knots, with 2 to 3-inch deck armor and two 10.2 Krupp guns, making her the most powerful cruiser in the world at the time of her launch.
She was grounded and sank on July 26th, 1912. 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ...
She had a sister ship, the Takachiho.
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