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	Japanese Navy, World War 1
		Most Japanese wartime losses apart from the Tsingtau operation, were due to accidents, but in the Mediterranean, one destroyer was torpedoed and badly damaged.
		Ibuki joined the hunt for 'Emden' in the East Indies in September 1914, in October took part in the escort of New Zealand troops to Australia, and early next month, because of the shortage of British ships helped escort the combined ANZAC convoy across the Indian Ocean.
		Takachiho was part of the large Japanese fleet engaged in the capture of the German base of Tsingtau in northern China.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyJapanese.htm (2249 words)

	Armored cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The armored cruiser was a naval cruiser protected by armor on its sides as well as on the decks and gun positions.
		Armored cruisers were the chief combatants in two naval battles: the Battle of Ulsan in the Russo-Japanese War, and the Battle of Coronel in World War I, and played important supporting roles in other battles of the period.
		On 17 July 1920, all existing US armored cruisers were merged with protected cruisers in a single class "cruiser" with hull classification symbol "CA", bringing to an end the use of the term in the US.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Armoured_cruiser (604 words)

	Armored cruiser - InformationBlast
		The armored cruiser was a naval cruiser protected by armor on the sides as well as the decks and gun positions.
		The main features of armored cruisers, like heavy guns and greater speed, than battleships, appeared again in the new class of battlecruisers (seems, that armored cruisers were the same for pre-dreadnoughts, as battlecruisers for dreadnoughts).
		On 17 July 1920, all existing US armored cruisers were merged with protected cruisers in a single class"cruiser" with hull classification symbol "CA"(not to be confused with the later use of the "CA" for heavy cruisers), bringing to an end the use of the term in the US.
	www.informationblast.com /Armored_cruiser.html (568 words)

	Armored cruiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Armored cruisers were the chief combatants in naval battles: the Battle of Ulsan in Russo-Japanese War and the Battle of Coronel in World War I and played important supporting roles in battles of the period.
		She was redesignated as a class battleship" in 1894 an awkward compromise reflecting slowness compared other cruisers and weakness versus the first-line of the time.
		On 17 July 1920 all existing US armored cruisers were with protected cruisers in a single class "cruiser" with hull classification symbol "CA" bringing to an end the of the term in the US.
	www.freeglossary.com /Armored_cruiser (818 words)

	Armored cruiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The main features of armored cruisers, like heavy guns and greater speed, than battleships, appeared again in the new class of battlecruiser s (seems, that armored cruisers were the same for pre-dreadnoughts, as battlecruisers for dreadnoughts).
		Typical armament of armored cruisers were 2 or 4 big calibre guns, usually 8 in - 10 in (203 - 254 mm) and some dozen guns calibre 6 in (152 mm) or similar.
		On 17 July 1920, all existing US armored cruisers were merged with protected cruiser s in a single class "cruiser" with hull classification symbol "CA" (not to be confused with the later use of the "CA" for heavy cruiser s), bringing to an end the use of the term in the US.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Armored_cruiser.html (663 words)

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		The Ibuki class was planned during the Russo-Japanese War and was authorized under the 1904 Supplemental Naval Budget, at the same time has the cruiser Tsukuba, but with heavier guns and with the new geared turbine engines which promised more power and hence, more speed.
		Shortly after commissioning, the Ibuki was sent on a voyage to Thailand to attend the coronation ceremony of the Thai king Rama VI Vajiravudh.
		Ibuki played an important role in World War I as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, in protecting British merchant shipping in the South Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, and participating in the hunt for the German East Asiatic Squadron and the SMS Emden.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Japanese_cruiser_Ibuki (284 words)

	Saxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Japanese cooperation is all the more surprising given that both British and American historians have characterized Japan’s role in the First World War as that of a “jackal state,” one that took a lion’s share of the kill after only minimally assisting the cause.
		Japanese expansion beyond Manchuria during 1913 and 1914 increased the deep suspicion of Japanese intentions on the part of the British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey.
		The Japanese navy relieved the Akashi in June 1917 with the armored cruiser Izumo and reinforced the Malta squadron with the destroyers Kashi, Hinoki, Momo, and Yanagi.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2000/winter/art3-w00.htm (8958 words)

	Mechanisms of Imperial Japanese Navy Warships in 3-D
		Japanese Cruiser OYODO's Catapult (Q and A) Conversion of Japanese FUSO Class Battleships to Aircraft-carriers (Q and A) Dickson
		Japanese Radar Equipment of WW2 (Q and A) Japanese Carrier in the Indian Ocean (Q and A) Japan's Undersea Suicide Troops
		Japanese Aircraft Against Pearl Harbor (Q and A) Rearming of Japanese Cruisers (Q and A) Armor Scheme of Japanese KONGO (Q and A) Japan's Myoko Class Cruisers (Comment)
	www.ijn.dreamhost.com /Reference/Reference%20-%20Warship%20International.htm (279 words)

	Heavy Cruisers of WWII (Part 3)
		Furthermore, Japanese ships carried reloads for their torpedo tubes (a torpedo attack was a one shot proposition in other navies).
		By April 1942 she was in the Indian Ocean supporting the Japanese fast carrier task force that was mauling the Royal Navy's Indian Ocean squadron and sinking the carrier Hermes, and heavy cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire.
		Later, between 1959-64, Chicago and Columbus were extensively reconstructed into "double ended" missile cruisers by the removal of their entire superstructure and all gun mounts, and emerged with a twin Talos SAM launcher fore and aft, an 8-cell ASROC box launcher amidships, and a twin Terrier launcher on each side of the bridge.
	www.chuckhawks.com /heavy_cruisers_part3.htm (3504 words)

	List of ships of the Japanese Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the list of ships of Japan's medieval Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
		Red seal ships - Around 350 armed sailships, commissionned by the Bakufu in the early 17th century, for Asian and South-East Asian trade.
		Ibuki class (note: the IJN classified these as battlecruisers but they lacked the big guns of battlecruisers proper)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Japanese_Navy (603 words)

	NNINIININI - Online Information article about NNINIININI
		The " Ibuki " is fitted with turbines of 27,000' H.P., the " Kurama " with reciprocating engines of 22,500 I.H.P.
		The armoured cruisers, " Rossia," of 12,200 tons and 20 knots, and " Gromoboi," of 13,220 tons, 15,500 I.H.P. and 20 knots speed, carry four 8-in., twenty-two 6-in.
		Italy.—Italy possesses several protected cruisers of the " Piemonte " type already described as well as a number of smaller vessels.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NNINIININI.html (589 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of ships of the Japanese Navy
		She was laid down as the third Yamato class battleship (of four planned), but following the losses in the Battle of Midway was completed with a flight deck, making her the largest carrier of her era.
		She was sunk on November 29, 1944 by four torpedoes launched from the submarine USS Archerfish (Commander Joseph F. Enright) while she was transferred from Yokosuka to Kure - the hull compartmentation had not yet been installed.
		Like many other Japanese ships, including Yamato, she took her name from a Japanese province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-ships-of-the-Japanese-Navy (235 words)

	Japanese Carriers of WW2
		Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack Force detaches carriers Hiryu and Soryu, heavy cruisers Tone and Chikuma, and two destroyers to reinforce second attack on Wake Island.
		Japanese transport force, formed around seaplane carriers Chitose and Nisshin and six destroyers, reaches Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal, to disembark elements of the Japanese Army's 2d Infantry Division.
		Chilose, the latter with the assistance of cruiser gunfire.
	www.ww2pacific.com /japcv.html (1680 words)

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		The Ibuki-class cruisers were planned during the Russo-Japanese War and authorized under the 1904 Supplemental Naval Budget, at the same time as the IJN Tsukuba, but with heavier guns.
		Ibuki was designed with geared turbine engines which promised more power and hence, more speed; however, problems with these engines led the Kurama to be completed with conventional vertical VTE reciprocating engines.
		In the 1920s, Kurama was assigned to the northern fleet, covering the landings of Japanese troops in Russia during the Siberian Intervention in support of White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Japanese_cruiser_Kurama (320 words)

	Origins of the Battlecruiser
		Thus armored cruisers might actually have an advantage over battleships at some ranges, and some proposals (in Italy and Russia) were put forward for ships armed exclusively with 8-inch guns (which were seen as the ideal combination of rapid-fire with armor-piercing).
		In general, however, armored cruisers were fitted with a few big turret guns fore and aft (8-inch to 10-inch) to act as "closers" that could penetrate the other fellow's armor once his topsides had been chewed up by the quick-firers at longer ranges.
		They were never referred to as "Cruisers of the Line" by the Soviets, and the term "heavy cruiser" was apt (although somewhat confusing in light of its use in the west for 8-inch gunned cruisers -- of which the Soviets had none -- hence for them there was no terminological conflict).
	www.gwpda.org /naval/bcs001.htm (3016 words)

	Our Japanese conundrum - Opinion - www.theage.com.au
		During November, a Japanese cruiser, the Ibuki, escorted the Anzac convoy to the Middle East.
		Its commander wanted the honour of sinking a German light cruiser, the Emden, altering the course of his more powerful battlecruiser to run between it and the light cruiser HMAS Sydney.
		A potent force for pacifism is the Japanese budget, which is so far in the red that Tokyo will be hard-pressed to meet its present commitments to home island defence.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Opinion/Our-Japanese-conundrum/2005/03/06/1110044249275.html (1083 words)

	LST 794 in Japan
		In October and November of 1945, she carried Japanese POW's from Saishu To (also known as Quelpart Island - off the Southern tip of the Korean peninsula) and Taku, China to Sasebo, on the Island of Kyushu.
		By the end of the war, the Japanese fleet had been reduced to two aircraft carriers that could still steam and several incomplete hulks.
		This one is the Ibuki, a light fleet aircraft carrier that started life as a cruiser.
	www.members.global2000.net /~macminn/Japan/794Japan.html (431 words)

	ipedia.com: Armored cruiser Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Early armored cruisers had a usual displacement of around 9,000 - 12,000 tons and a speed of 18 - 20 knots.
		The last armored cruisers had a stronger armament, like the British HMS Warrior (1907) - 6-9.2in (234mm) guns and 4-7.5in (190mm) guns; the German SMS Blucher (1909) - 12-8.2in (210mm) guns and 6-5.9in (150mm) guns, while the second Russian Ryurik (1909, British-built) had 4-10in (254mm) guns, 8-8in (203mm) guns and 20-4.7in (120mm) guns.
		Some of the strongest were Japanese, like Ibuki (1909) with 4-12in (305mm) guns, 8-8in (203mm) guns and 14-4.7in (120mm) guns.
	www.ipedia.com /armored_cruiser.html (625 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-German WW1 Light Cruiser SMS Emden versus HMAS Sydney-
		The cruiser anchored near by, and sent off a landing party of about 50 men under the command of Kapitanleutnant Hellmuth von Mucke, their task to destroy this British radio and Cable station.
		She destroyed the German cruiser's radio installation, wrecked her steering gear, and cut the voice pipe communication between the bridge and the guns.
		The German cruiser now lost its second funnel, and her engine room was ablaze, and the third funnel followed its two mates, to be shot away.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/GermanWW1LightCruiserSMSE.html (1328 words)

	★ Reviews of books about japan
		I was particularly struck by the comparative decline in the Japanese Zero as America moved from P40s, P39s and F4Fs to Zero killers such as the F4U, F6F, and P38.
		The book revolves around two men, Tsuneo Ibuki and Toyoki Mikame, who are both highly educated and intelligent men, but all of their intelligence and education is thrown out the window when it comes to the widow, Yasuko Tagano.
		Japanese cruisers were not at the top of my list as far as interests go, and I loved it.
	japan.vacationbookreview.com /japan_4.html (4125 words)

	Japanese Light Cruisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They were designed as flagships for destroyer and cruiser squadrons.
		In practice they were used as destroyer and cruiser leaders.
		The Oyodo was built as a flotilla leader for submarine groups, and as such carried 6 aircraft on the stern with all the main armament forward.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /aj.cashmore/japan/japan-light.html (153 words)

	Japanese Cruisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Japanese Cruisers from the First World War to the Second World War.
		She was the first Japanese cruiser to have a clipper bow.
		The Tenryu class Ligth Cruisers, Tenryu and Tatsuta were designed along the same lines of the successful Royal navy Arethusa Class Cruisers.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /japanese_cruisers.htm (1354 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Junyo (Aircraft Carrier, 1942-1947)
		She was begun as the civilian passenger liner Kashiwara Maru but was taken over by the Japanese Navy in 1940, while still on the shipways, and converted to a carrier.
		As one of four large aircraft carriers remaining after the Midway action, Junyo was an important unit of the Japanese fleet during the next two years, even though she had a lower speed (about 23 knots) and smaller air group (about fifty planes) than built-for-the-purpose fleet carriers.
		Three Japanese aircraft carriers and several "Kaibokan" escort ships are in the background.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-j/junyo.htm (809 words)

	World Battleships List: Japanese Dreadnoughts
		The four semi-battlecruisers included here were designed and built as exceptionally powerful armored cruisers (4 12/45, 12 6/45 and 4 12/45, 8 8/45), but were often identified as battlecruisers and were reclassified as such in 1912.
		Ibuki was delayed by the lack of a building slip, so she was modified with turbine engines (much like Aki was).
		Built as armored cruisers, reclassified as battlecruisers 1912, changed to first class cruisers 1921.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/ijn_dr.htm (1784 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Deployment 1914
		Lacroix and Wells's monumental "Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War" gives detailed information on Japanese fleet organization and other matters back at least to the turn of the century, the title notwithstanding.
		Below is the basic structure of the Japanese navy under the reorganization of 10 July 1914; they do not tell which ships were in each formation, so I'm not sure whether this will be helpful.
		Under the previous organization all battleships as well as many cruisers were in the First Fleet; cruisers and coast-defense ships comprised the Second and Third Fleets; destroyers were in divisions of four ships attached to naval stations and sometimes to the fleets.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/fdjn0001.htm (545 words)

	Avalanche Press
		But the Japanese were not pleased with the results.
		Casting about for warship hulls that could be converted to carriers fairly quickly, the Navy ordered work stopped on the new cruiser Ibuki, and her conversion to a carrier.
		Japanese designers first disproved this with a seaplane version of the A6M “Zero” fighter.
	www.avalanchepress.com /prop_leyteShips.php (966 words)

	Mechanisms of Imperial Japanese Navy Warships in 3-D
		Japanese warships in retrospect - CV Kaga, CV Akagi, CL Katori, CL Kashima, CL Kashii, BB Kashima, BB Katori, by Shizuo Fukui, p8-17.
		Japanese warships in retrospect - BB Tsukuba, BB Ikoma, BB Kurama, BB Ibuki, CA Takao, by Shizui Fukui, p61-68.
		Japanese warships in retrospect - DD Sakura, DD Tachibana, DD Kaba, DD Sakaki, DD Katsura, DD Ume, DD Kusunoki, By Shizui Fukui, p10-18.
	www.ijn.dreamhost.com /Reference/Reference%20-%20Ships%20of%20The%20World%201962%20(053-064).htm (401 words)

	Tsushima.ORG.RU - The Naval History
		October 13, 2006 - added a photo of 2nd class protected cruiser "Almaz".
		September 13, 2006 12 photos of japanese dreadnought "Nagato" added.
		September 10, 2006 12 photos of japanese dreadnought "Mutsu" added.
	www.tsushima.org.ru /index_en.htm (677 words)

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