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Asama class cruiser
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Asama-class cruiser
The were a pair of
armored cruisers
built for the
Imperial Japanese Navy
(IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, the ships were built in Britain. They were part of the "Six-Six Fleet" expansion program that began after the defeat of China during the
First Sino-Japanese War
of 1894–95. Between them, the
sister ships
participated in all four main naval battles of the
Russo-Japanese War
of 1904–05—the
Battle of Port Arthur
, the
Battle off Ulsan
, the
Battle of the Yellow Sea
, and the
Battle of Tsushima
—but played a much more minor role in
World War I
.
Asama
ran aground
while searching for German
commerce raiders
in early 1915 and was under repair for the next two years.
Tokiwa
participated in the
Battle of Tsingtao
and also searched for commerce raiders. Both ships made training cruises during the war and continued to do so after the war.
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