Japanese cruiser Asama
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 The Japanese cruiser Asama in 1900 |
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| Career |  |
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| Built: | Armstrong Whitworth, Great Britain |
| Ordered: | 1897 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down | November 1896 |
| Launched: | March 22 1898 |
| Completed: | March 18 1899 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1947 |
| 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: |
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| Armor: | 88-180 mm main belt armor; 125 mm upper belt, 50 mm deck armor |
The IJN 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. It was named after Mount Asama, located north of Tokyo. Her sister ship was Tokiwa.
The Asama was at the Battle of Tsushima, where she was damaged by gunfire (mostly by Imperator Nikolai I battleship) 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 decommissioned on 30 November 1945. It was scrapped under the American occupation of Japan in 1947.
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