Japanese cruiser Izumo
Service
- as Izumo? — 20 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Izumo
- Namesake
- Izumo Province
- Builder
- Armstrong Whitworth, United Kingdom
- Ordered
- 24 September 1897
- Laid down
- 14 May 1898
- Launched
- 19 September 1899
- Struck
- 20 November 1945
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack, 24 July 1945
Scrapped, 1947 (1945) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,353 long tons (9,503 t)
- Length
- 132.28 m (434 ft) OA
- Beam
- 20.94 m (68.7 ft)
- Draught
- 7.26 m (23.8 ft)
- Speed
- 20.8 knots (38.4 km/h, 23.9 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 672
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
Izumo was a Izumo-class cruiser armored cruiser in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named for Izumo Province. Armstrong Whitworth, United Kingdom laid her keel on 14 May 1898. She was launched on 19 September 1899.
Her class ran to two ships. The class followed the Asama-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Japanese cruiser Yakumo.
Displacement was 9,353 long tons. She measured 132.3 m (434 ft) long with a beam of 20.9 m (69 ft). Her designed speed was 20.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 672.
Her main battery was four 203 mm (8.0 in) guns in two twin mountings. Her machinery developed 14,500 ihp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 24 July 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts
- 2 triple-expansion steam engines
- Power
- 24 Belleville boilers
- 14500 ihp
- Armament
- 2 × twin 20.3 cm guns
- 14 × single 6 in guns
- 12 × single 12-pdr (3 in) guns
- 8 × single 2.5-pdr (3 in) guns
- 4 × single 457 mm torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 89 - 178 mm
- Deck: 63 mm
- Gun Turret: 160 mm
- Barbette: 152 mm
- Casemate: 51 - 152 mm
- Conning tower: 356 mm
- Bulkhead: 127 mm
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese cruiser Izumo on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy — Avgust Blaznik’s Collection in the Maritime Museum in Piran, Slovenia — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons