Japanese cruiser Tsugaru

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NameTsugaru
Ordered1895 Fiscal Year
Tsugaru in 1918
History
Japan
NameTsugaru
NamesakeTsugaru Strait
Ordered1895 Fiscal Year
BuilderAdmiralty Shipyard, Russia
Laid down1 December 1895
Launched26 August 1899
Completed2 November 1901
Acquiredby Japan as prize of war, 1905
Commissioned22 August 1908
Stricken1 April 1922
FateScuttled, 27 May 1924
General characteristics
TypeProtected cruiser
Displacement
  • 6,600 long tons (6,706 t) normal
  • 6,932 long tons (7,043 t) full load
Length126 m (413 ft 5 in) w/l
Beam16.8 m (55 ft 1 in)
Draught6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Propulsion2 shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 24 boilers; 11,610 hp (8,660 kW)
Speed20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h), 21.85 knots (25.14 mph; 40.47 km/h)[1] (trial)
Range3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement514
Armament
Armour

Tsugaru (津軽) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, acquired as a prize of war during the Russo-Japanese War from the Imperial Russian Navy, where she was originally known as Pallada. The cruisers Aurora and Diana were her sister ships.

Pallada was built by the Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg, Russia for the Imperial Russian Navy. As the lead ship of the Pallada class, she was one of the most modern cruisers in the Russian navy when assigned to the Russian Far East squadron based at Port Arthur, Manchuria.

With the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Pallada was trapped at Port Arthur, and subsequently sunk by Japanese artillery during the Siege of Port Arthur on 8 December 1904.

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