Japanese cruiser Izumi

Esmeralda
History
Chile
Name:	Esmeralda
Namesake:	Esmeralda (1791)
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth, United Kingdom
Laid down:	5 April 1881
Launched:	6 June 1883
Completed:	15 July 1884
Commissioned:	16 October 1884
Fate:	Sold to Japan, 15 November 1894
Empire of Japan
Renamed:	Izumi
Namesake:	Izumi Province
Ordered:	1894 Fiscal Year
Out of service:	1907
Struck:	1 April 1912
Fate:	Scrapped 1912
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	2,930 long tons (2,977 t)
Length:	82.29 m (270 ft) w/l
Beam:	12.8 m (42 ft)
Draught:	5.64 m (18 ft 6 in)
Propulsion:	Horizontal double expansion steam engines, 6,083 hp (4,536 kW) 12 boilers 2 shafts 600 tons coal
Speed:	18.25 knots (21.0 mph; 33.8 km/h)
Complement:	300
Armament:	(as built) 2 ×BL 10 inch gun Mk I – IV L/32 6 × BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI L/40 2 × QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss guns 5 × QF 2 pounder naval guns 1 × Gardner guns (post 1902) 2 ×BL 6-inch Mk VII naval guns L/45 6 × QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IV L/40 6 × QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss guns 3 × 356 mm (14.0 in) torpedo uubes 2 × machine guns
Armour:	25 mm (0.98 in) deck armor (slope) 12 mm (0.47 in) deck armor (flat)

Izumi (和泉^?) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by the Newcastle upon Tyne-based Armstrong Whitworth shipyards at Elswick in the United Kingdom for the Chilean Navy. Its first name was Esmeralda before it was sold to Japan in 1894. Its Japanese name is also sometimes (archaically) transliterated as Idzumi, and refers to ancient Izumi Province, now part of Osaka-fu. During its time in service it participated in the Panama crisis of 1885 asserting Chilean interests, the 1891 Chilean Civil War, the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese War.

Esmeralda was developed as a custom-design by naval architect George Wightwick Rendel of Armstrong Whitworth for the Chilean Navy, and followed through by his successor William Henry White. Assigned shipyard number 429, the cruiser was laid down on 5 April 1881 and launched on 6 June 1883, and completed on 15 July 1884. During speed trials, the new vessel attained 18.29 knots (33.87 km/h; 21.05 mph), which made it the fastest cruiser of the world at the time. This created a sensation among professionals and in the news, and led the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) to visit the ship of 22 August 1884.Esmeralda served in the Chilean Navy for approximately ten years, until 1894. She was then sold to Japan as part of Japan's Emergency Fleet Replenishment Programme during the First Sino-Japanese War, and was commissioned into service with the Imperial Japanese Navy on 15 November 1894 as Izumi.

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