Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Izumo-class cruiser
Izumo class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1898–1901
- In commission
- 1900–1945
- Preceded by
- Asama-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Japanese cruiser Yakumo
- Builders
- Armstrong Whitworth, United Kingdom
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 9,353 long tons (9,503 t)
- Length
- 132.28 m (434 ft) OA
- Speed
- 20.8 knots (38.4 km/h, 23.9 mph)
- Complement
- 672
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 8 in guns
- 14 × single 6 in guns
- 12 × single 12 pdr (3 in) guns
- 8 × single 2.5 pdr (1.5 in) Yamauchi guns
- 4 × 18 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Iwate | 1900 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| Japanese cruiser Izumo | 1899 | Scrapped 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Izumo-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.