The Japanese cruiser Niitaka in November 1922
Career
Built:	Yokosuka Naval Yards, Japan
Ordered:	1897 Fiscal Year
Laid down	January 7 1902
Launched:	November 15 1902
Completed:	January 27 1904
Fate:	Wrecked April 1 1923
General Characteristics
Displacement:	3,366 tons
Length:	102.0 meters at waterline
Beam:	13.44 meters
Draught:	4.92 meters
Propulsion:	2-shaft, 16 boilers, 9500 HP
Speed:	20 knots
Fuel:	600 tons coal
Complement:	320
Armament:	6 × 152 mm guns 10 × 10 pdr guns 4 x 2.5 pdr guns
Armor:	67 mm deck 100 mm conning tower

The Niitaka (新高) was an protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built in Japan by the Yokosuka Naval Yards. It was the sister ship of the Tsushima. The Niitaka is named after Mount Niitaka in Taiwan, at the time, the tallest mountain in the Japanese Empire. Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_Japan. ... Categories: Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture | Japan geography stubs ... Some knots: 1. ... Protected cruiser armour scheme — a cross-section (armour in red) Protected cruisers were a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century. ... 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... Categories: Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture | Japan geography stubs ... A sister ship is a ship of the same class as, or of virtually identical design to, another ship. ... Jade Mountain or Yushan (玉山) is situated in the Yushan National Park (玉山國家公園) in the Republic of China on Taiwan. ... His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Akihito of Japan The Emperor of Japan (天皇, tennō) is Japans titular head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family. ...

The Niitaka was commissioned just in time for the Russo-Japanese War and saw combat at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay and the Battle of the Yellow Sea. After the war, it was assigned to patrol duties off of the China coast, off of Manila and along the northern Korean peninsula. In WW-1, it took part in the Battle of Tsingtao, and was later based at Singapore, to protect British shipping around Australia and New Zealand from German attack. While at Singapore in February 1915, 158 marines from the cruisers Otowa and Niitaka helped suppress a mutiny by Indian Sepoys. Combatants Imperial Russia Empire of Japan Commanders N/A N/A Strength 500,000 Soldiers 400,000 Soldiers Casualties 134,817+ KIA/POW, 170,000 MIA etc. ... Combatants Empire of Japan Russian Empire Commanders Uryu Sotokichi Vsevolod Rudnev Strength 4 armored cruisers, 2 protected cruisers 1 armored cruiser, 1 gunboat Casualties no casualties 37 killed, 73 wounded; both ships scuttled after the battle The Battle of Chemulpo Bay was an early naval battle in the Russo-Japanese... The Battle of the Yellow Sea was the first main naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War, being fought on August 10, 1904. ... The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines. ... The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul... The Battle of Tsingtao was the attack on the German-controlled port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China during World War I. It too took place between 27 August-7 November 1914 and was fought by Japan and the United Kingdom against Germany. ...

From mid-1915 to 1918, Tsushima and the Niitaka were permanently based at the Cape of Good Hope, assist the Royal Navy in patrolling the sea lanes in the Indian Ocean, linking Europe to the east. The Cape of Good Hope; looking towards the west, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ...

From September – July 1920, the Niitaka assisted in the landings of Japanese forces in Petropavlovsk under the Siberian Expedition to help the White Russian forces against the Bolsheviks. Petropavlovsk can refer to: Petropavlovsk (or Petropavl) in Kazakhstan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The term White Russian may refer to: A member of the White movement, which opposed the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. ... Bolsheviks (Russian: IPA , derived from bolshinstvo, majority) were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction[1] at the Second Party Congress in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...

On 01 September 1921, the Niitaka was re-designated as 2nd Class Coastal Defense Vessel. On 01 April 1924, she ran aground and sank in a typhoon off the coast of Karafuto, with the loss of 284 members of her crew. There were only 15 survivors. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Dutch coastal defence ship Hertog Hendrik Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coast-defence battleships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly in the period 1860-1920. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone viewed from the International Space Station on March 26, 2004. ... Location of Sakhalin in the Western Pacific Sakhalin, GOST transliteration Sahalin, (Russian: , Korean: Traditional Chinese: 庫頁島; Simplified Chinese: 库页岛; pinyin: kùyèdǎo Japanese: 樺太 romaji: karafuto), also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50 and 54° 24 N. It is part of the Russian...

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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... Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_Japan. ... Boshin War (1868-1869): Naval Battle of Hakodate (Imperial Navy victory over the remnants of the Shoguns Navy of the Republic of Ezo. ... This is the list of ships of Japans medieval Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. ... This is the list of aircrafts of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and the Japan Self-Defense Forces, including ones in the past and ones in the present time. ... This is a list of the weapons of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...