Japanese cruiser Tsugaru

Tsugaru in 1918
History
Japan
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
Displacement	6,600 long tons (6,706 t) normal 6,932 long tons (7,043 t) full load
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
Armament	8 × 152 mm (6 in) guns 12 × 80 mm (3.1 in) guns 3 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armour	Deck: 50–62 mm (2.0–2.4 in) Conning tower: 150 mm (5.9 in)

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.