Japanese cruiser Tsukuba
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Tsukuba was the lead ship of the two-ship Tsukuba class of armoured cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after Mount Tsukuba located in Ibaraki prefecture north of Tokyo. On 28 August
Tsukuba before 1913 refit.
Letter from Vice admiral Ijuin Gorō to Italian Royal Navy Lieutenant Ernesto Burzagli, who had been assigned to the Imperial Japanese Navy as a naval attaché during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, thanking him for courtesies extended to the Imperial Japanese Navy Second Fleet in Naples.
Hirose Takeo
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Hirose Takeo was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He commanded the cargo vessel Fukui Maru during the Battle of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War. The ship was hit by coastal artill
Japanese cruiser Tsukuba
…Ocean, thus circumnavigating the globe. After her return to Japan, Tsukuba was assigned to Commander Hirose Katsuhiko (the brother of the war hero Hirose Takeo) and escorted the United States Navy’s Great White Fleet through Japanese waters on its around-the-world voyage in October 1908. Commander Isamu Takeshita…
Hirose Takeo
Bronze statue of Lieutenant Colonel Hirose.
Commemorative print, "Commander Hirose's Great Achievement"