Ryūjō (龍驤, Prancing Dragon), was a British-built ironclad corvette of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). She was purchased on behalf of a Japanese daimyo...
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Two Japanese naval vessels have been named Ryūjō (龍驤, Prancing Dragon): Japanese ironclad Ryūjō, a cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy that fought in...
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Kōtetsu (甲鉄, literally "Ironclad"), later renamed Azuma (東, "East"), was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was designed as...
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Imperial Japanese Navy. Nobunaga's ironclad navy Hiroshi Nishida's IJN site Imperial Japanese Navy page Imperial Japanese Navy Awards of the Golden Kite in...
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corvettes Ryūjō (1869) - retired in 1906 Kongō class Kongō (1877) - retired in 1909 Hiei (1877) - retired in 1911 Central battery ironclad Fusō (1877)...
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Ogura Byōichirō (category Japanese military personnel of the First Sino-Japanese War)
included Ijuin Gorō and Dewa Shigetō. He served as a squad leader on the ironclad Ryūjō and the cruiser Takachiho, and as executive officer on the corvettes...
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atakebune. Around that time, Japan seems to have developed one of the first ironclad warships in history, when Oda Nobunaga, a Japanese daimyō, had six iron-covered...
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Kirishima (Japanese: 霧島, named after Mount Kirishima) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy which saw service during World War I and World War II...
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Tōgō Heihachirō (category Japanese military personnel of the First Sino-Japanese War)
Imperial Japanese Navy Training School at Tsukiji, Tokyo. On 11 December 1870 he was formally appointed a cadet on the Japanese ironclad flagship Ryūjō, then...
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17 cm RK L/25 (category Naval guns of Japan)
British 7-inch gun. In Japan, the ironclad Fusō had four 24 cm guns and two 17 cm RK L/25, used as chase guns. The ironclad corvette Ryūjō later got two 17 cm...
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