Japanese cruiser Chiyoda

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The Japanese cruiser Chiyoda around 1900
Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Built: John Brown & Company, Great Britain
Ordered: 1888 Fiscal Year
Laid down November 1888
Launched: June 3 1890
Completed: January 1 1891
Fate: Scuttled August 5 1927
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,600 tons
Length: 94.5 meters at waterline
Beam: 12.95 meters
Draught: 4.27 meters
Propulsion: 2-shaft, 6-boilers, 5600 BHP
Speed: 19 knots
Range:
Complement: 350
Armament:
Armor: 115 mm belt armor; 25-33 mm deck armor

Chiyoda (千代田) was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's first armored cruisers. Ordered in 1889 to British yards, she served in the Sino-Japanese War (1898) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), especially with a prominent role in the Battle of Chemulpo Bay. On 30 May 1921, she was re-designated as a “Second-Class Coastal Defense Vessel”, later served as a training ship, and was scrapped in 1927.

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