Izumo
| Country | Japan |
| Ship Class | Izumo-class Armored Cruiser |
| Builder | Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK |
| Laid Down | 1 May 1898 |
| Launched | 19 Sep 1898 |
| Commissioned | 25 Sep 1900 |
| Sunk | 24 Jul 1945 |
| Displacement | 9906 tons standard; 10395 tons full |
| Length | 434 feet |
| Beam | 69 feet |
| Draft | 24 feet |
| Machinery | Multi-expansion engines, 24 boilers, 2 shafts |
| Bunkerage | 1412 tons coal |
| Power Output | 14500 SHP |
| Speed | 21 knots |
| Range | 7,000nm at 10 knots |
| Crew | 648 |
| Armament | 4x203mm guns, 14x152mm guns, 12x12pdr guns, 8x2.5pdr guns, 4x450mm torpedo tubes |
| Armor | 88-175mm main belt, 125mm upper belt, 67mm deck, 150mm turret, 150mm casemate, 356mm conning tower |
| Aircraft | 1 |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
Izumo was the lead ship of her class of armored cruisers, built by the British near the turn of the century. During the Russo-Japanese War, she was the flagship of Japanese 2nd Fleet's Admiral Hikonojo Kamimura; in that war, she participated in the Battle off Ulsan on 14 Aug 1904 and the Battle of Tsushima on 26 May 1905. In 1909, she celebrated the 140th anniversary of the founding of San Francisco, California, United States, visiting several other American ports during the trip. During WW1, she patrolled foreign waters as far as the Mediterranean Sea as a part of the Allied fleet. In the 1919 Naval Review, Emperor Taisho took the helm of Izumo briefly during fleet maneuvers. On 1 Sep 1921, she was reclassified a 1st Class coastal defense vessel and operated in the Japanese home islands for the following several years. When Japan invaded China in 1937, thus starting WW2 in Asia, she was the flagship of the Japanese 3rd Fleet. During the Second Battle of Shanghai, she was attacked unsuccessfully by Chinese torpedo boats. On 14 Aug 1937, she was attacked by a group of Chinese Air Force aircraft led by Captain Claire Chennault. At 0400 on 8 Dec 1941, moment after the Pacific War began, Izumo forced the surrender of American gunboat USS Wake and sank the British gunboat HMS Peterel. During the war, she was retrofitted with anti-aircraft weapons and served in the Inland Sea as a training vessel. She was sunk at dock at Kure, Japan in an American air attack in 1945, near the end of the war. Her wreck was raised in 1947 for scrapping.
Source: Wikipedia.
Izumo Operational Timeline
| 25 Sep 1900 | Izumo was commissioned into service. |
| 7 Dec 1941 | Japanese armored cruiser Izumo sank British river gunboat HMS Peterel in Shanghai, China. |
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3 May 2009 10:14:21 PM
Was looking for info, on her use in Canada, dering WW1 as a defender of Canada's shores. any info or direction would be great.
Mark Giles