IWATE
...Japanese warship

Ordered: 1897 Fiscal Year

Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Great Britain

Laid down: November 1898

Launched: 29 March 1900

Completed: 18 March 1901

Fate: Sunk by air attack, 26 July 1945

Raised and scrapped, 1947

General characteristics

Class and type: Izumo-class cruiser

Displacement: 9,750 long tons (9,906 t)

Length: 132.28 m (434 ft 0 in) w/l
Beam: 20.94 m (68 ft 8 in)
Draught: 7.37 m (24 ft 2 in)
Propulsion: 2 shaft VTE
14,500 shp (10,800 kW)
1412 tons coal

Speed: 20.75 knots (23.88 mph; 38.43 km/h)
Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement: 648
Armament: • 4 × 203 mm (8 in) guns
• 14 × 152 mm (6 in) rapid fire guns
• 12 × 12-pounder rapid fire guns
• 8 × 2½-pounder rapid fire guns
• 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armour: Main belt: 88–175 mm (3.5–6.9 in)
Upper belt: 125 mm (4.9 in)
Deck: 67 mm (2.6 in)
Turret, casemate: 150 mm (5.9 in)
Conning tower: 356 mm (14 in)

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull collection New Zealand

Cheers and GB

Gordy