Japanese Cruiser Tsukuba

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tsukuba was the lead ship of the two-ship Tsukuba-class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Tsukuba was named after Mount Tsukuba located in Ibaraki prefecture north of Tokyo. On 1912-08-28, Kurama and its sister ship Ikoma were re-classified as battlecruisers by the Japanese navy. Tsukuba class was intended to be a replacement of Fuji and Yashima battleships. As construction began before the end of the Russo-Japanese War, construction progressed at a rapid pace, and contemporary American military observers were surprised (and concerned) that Japan had learned to build such large and powerful warships so quickly, and in such a short time.