Japanese cruiser Tsugaru
Tsugaru in 1918
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| Name: | Tsugaru |
| Namesake: | Tsugaru Strait |
| Ordered: | 1895 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Admiralty Shipyard, Russia |
| Laid down: | 1 December 1895 |
| Launched: | 26 August 1899 |
| Completed: | 2 November 1901 |
| Acquired: | by Japan as prize of war, 1905 |
| Commissioned: | 22 August 1908 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1922 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 27 May 1924 |
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| Type: | Protected cruiser |
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| Length: | 126 m (413 ft 5 in) w/l |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 24 boilers; 11,610 hp (8,660 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 514 |
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Tsugaru (津軽?) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, acquired as a prize of war during the Russo-Japanese War from the Imperial Russian Navy, where it was originally known as Pallada. The cruisers Aurora and Diana were its sister ships.
Pallada was built by the Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg, Russia for the Imperial Russian Navy. As the lead ship of the Pallada class, it was one of the most modern cruisers in the Russian navy when assigned to the Russian Far East squadron based at Port Arthur, Manchuria.
With the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Pallada was trapped at Port Arthur, and subsequently sunk by Japanese artillery during the Siege of Port Arthur on 8 December 1904.
After the capture of Port Arthur by the Japanese, the wreck of Pallada was raised, repaired, and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as the second-class cruiser Tsugaru on 22 August 1908. Her new name came from the Tsugaru Strait between Honshū and Hokkaidō.
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