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Japanese cruiser Tsugaru
 Tsugaru in 1918
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| History | |
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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 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1922 |
| Fate | Scuttled, 27 May 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| 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 her sister ships.
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