Japanese cruiser Ikoma

Japanese battlecruiser Ikoma
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Ikoma
Ordered	1904 Fiscal Year
Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down	15 March 1905
Launched	9 April 1906
Commissioned	24 March 1908
Stricken	20 September 1923
Fate	Scrapped, 20 September 1923
General characteristics
Class and type	Tsukuba-class armored cruiser
Length	134.11 m (440.0 ft) waterline; 137.11 m (449.8 ft) overall
Beam	22.80 m (74.8 ft)
Draught	7.95 m (26.1 ft)
Installed power	20,500 shp (15,290 kW)
Propulsion	Two shaft reciprocating VTE steam engine; 20 Miyabara boilers
Speed	20.5 knots (38 km/h)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	879
Armament	4 × 12-inch (305 mm) guns 12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns 12 × 120-millimetre (4.724 in) guns 4 × QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss 3 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 100–180 mm (3.9–7.1 in) Barbette & turret: 180 mm (7.1 in) Conning tower: 200 mm (7.9 in) Deck: 75 mm (3.0 in)

Ikoma (生駒) was the second vessel in the two-ship Tsukuba class of armoured cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after Mount Ikoma located on the border of Osaka and Nara prefecture. On 28 August 1912, Ikoma was re-classified as a battlecruiser.^[1]