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A colorized photo of Asama at anchor, Plymouth, 1902
History
Japanese cruiser AsamaEmpire of Japan
NameAsama
NamesakeMount Asama
Awarded6 July 1897
BuilderArmstrong Whitworth, United Kingdom
Laid down20 October 1896
Launched21 March 1898
Completed18 March 1899
Decommissioned30 November 1945
Reclassified
  • As 1st class coast-defense ship, 1 September 1921
  • As training ship, July 1942
FateScrapped, 1947
General characteristics
Class and typeAsama-class armored cruiser
Displacement9,710 t (9,560 long tons)
Length134.72 m (442 ft) (o/a)
Beam20.48 m (67 ft 2 in)
Draft7.43 m (24 ft 5 in)
Installed power
  • 12 cylindrical boilers
  • 18,000 ihp (13,000 kW)
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement676
Armament
  • 2 × twin 20.3 cm/45 Type 41 naval guns
  • 14 × single QF 6 inch /40 naval guns
  • 12 × single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns
  • 8 × single QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss guns
  • 5 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armor
  • Waterline belt: 89–178 mm (3.5–7.0 in)
  • Deck: 51 mm (2 in)
  • Gun Turret: 160 mm (6.3 in)
  • Barbette: 152 mm (6 in)
  • Casemate: 51–152 mm (2–6 in)
  • Conning tower: 356 mm (14 in)
  • Bulkhead: 127 mm (5 in)

Asama (淺間) was the lead ship of her class of armored cruisers (Sōkō jun'yōkan) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, the ship was built in Britain. She served in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 during which she participated in the Battle of Chemulpo Bay and the Battle of the Yellow Sea without damage, although her luck did not hold out during the Battle of Tsushima. Early in World War I, Asama unsuccessfully searched for German commerce raiders until she was severely damaged when she ran aground off the Mexican coast in early 1915. Repairs took over two years to complete and she was mainly used as a training ship for the rest of her career. The ship made a total of 12 training cruises before she was crippled after running aground again in 1935. Asama then became a stationary training ship until she was broken up in 1946–1947.

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