Japanese heavy cruiser Ibuki
Career
Builder:	Kure Naval Yards, Japan
Ordered:	FY1904 Fiscal Year
Laid down:	May 22, 1907
Launched:	November 11, 1907
Commissioned:	November 1, 1909
Fate:	Scrapped September 20, 1923
General Characteristics
Displacement:	14,636 tons (normal); 15,595 tons (max)
Length:	147.8 meters waterline; 137.2 meters overall
Beam:	23.0 meters
Draft:	8.0 meters
Propulsion:	Two Shaft Geared Turbine Engines; 24,000 shp
Speed:	21.5 knots
Fuel & Range:	2000 tons coal 218 tons oil
Complement:	844
Armament:	4 × 305 mm guns 8 × 203 mm guns 14 × 120 mm guns 4 × 80 mm guns 3 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armor:	belt: 100-180 mm barbette & turret: 125-180 mm conning tower: 200 mm deck: 75 mm

IJN Ibuki (伊吹) was the lead ship in the Ibuki class of 1st class heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_Japan. ... 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. ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... The lead ship is the first of a series or class of ships all constructed according to the same general design. ... The term heavy cruiser is used to refer to large cruisers, a form of warship. ... The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍   or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of Empire of Greater Japan, also known as the Japanese Navy or Combined Fleet was the Navy of Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japans constitutional renunciation of the use of force...

The Ibuki had one sister ship, the IJN Kurama. The Ibuki is named after Mount Ibuki located between Gifu prefecture and Shiga prefecture in Honshū. The class was planned during the Russo-Japanese War and was authorized under the 1904 Supplemental Naval Budget, at the same time has the IJN Tsukuba, but with heavier guns and with the new geared turbine engines which promised more power and hence, more speed. However, problems with the turbine engines delayed the construction of the Ibuki, and in the end, construction began almost two years later than her sister ship, the Kurama, which used standard reciprocating engines. A sister ship is a ship of the same class as, or of virtually identical design to, another ship. ... Mount Ibuki is a mountain in Japan, straddling the border between the Gifu and Shiga prefectures. ... Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県 Gifu-ken), is located in the Chubu region of central Japan. ... Shiga Prefecture from outer space. ... HonshÅ« (本州 Literally Main State) is the largest island of Japan, called the Mainland; it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait. ... Combatants Russian Empire Montenegro Empire of Japan Commanders Emperor Nicholas II Aleksey Kuropatkin Stepan Makarov† Emperor Meiji Oyama Iwao Heihachiro Togo Greater Manchuria, Russian (outer) Manchuria is region to upper right in lighter Red; Liaodong Peninsula is the wedge extending into the Yellow Sea Georges Ferdinand Bigot, Japan fights against... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This machine has a single-stage radial compressor and turbine, a recuperator, and foil bearings. ... Components of a typical, four stroke cycle, DOHC piston engine. ...

Shortly after commissioning, the Ibuki was sent on a voyage to Thailand for the coronation ceremony of the Thai king Rama VI. The coronation of Empress Farah, of Iran in 1967. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

On 28 August 1912, the Ibuki was re-classified as a battlecruiser by the Japanese navy. August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... HMS Hood (left) and the battleship HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ...

It subsequently played an important role in World War I, in protecting British merchant shipping in the South Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, and participating in the hunt for the German East Asiatic Squadron and the SMS Emden. After the war, it felt victim to the Washington Naval Treaty and was scrapped after a short service life of only 15 years. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, peaceful sea, bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earths oceanic subdivisions. ... The German East Asia squadron was a German Kaiserliche Marine (naval) cruiser squadron which operated mainly in the Pacific Ocean between the 1870s and 1914. ... SMS Emden was a light cruiser of the German navy. ... The Washington Naval Treaty limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and Italy. ...

Afterwards, its guns were salvaged, and used in the shore batteries at Hakodate in Hokkaidō and along the Tsugaru Strait separating Honshū and Hokkaidō. View of Hakodate from Mountain Hakodate (函館市; -shi) is a city and port located in Oshima, Hokkaido, Japan. ...   literally North Sea Circuit, Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island and largest prefecture of Japan. ... Tsugaru Peninsula and Tsugaru Strait Tsugaru Strait (津軽海峡 Tsugaru Kaikyō) is a channel between HonshÅ« and Hokkaidō in northern Japan connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. ...

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