Japanese cruiser Yakumo

Yakumo at anchor in Kure, 8 April 1905
Class overview
Operators Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded byIzumo class
Succeeded byAzuma
History
NameYakumo
NamesakeA stanza of waka
Ordered1 September 1897
BuilderAG Vulcan Stettin, Stettin, Germany
Laid down1 September 1897
Launched8 July 1899
Completed20 June 1900
Reclassified
Stricken1 October 1945
FateScrapped, 20 July 1946
General characteristics
TypeArmored cruiser
Displacement9,646 t (9,494 long tons)
Length132.3 m (434 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam19.57 m (64 ft 2 in)
Draft7.21 m (23 ft 8 in)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement670
Armament
Armor

Yakumo (八雲, Eight Clouds) was an armored cruiser (Sōkō jun'yōkan) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships itself, the ship was built in Germany. She participated in most of the naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was lightly damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and the Battle of Tsushima. Yakumo saw no combat during World War I and began the first of many training cruises in 1917, although she was not officially reclassified as a training ship until 1931. Her last training cruise was in 1939, but the ship continued to conduct training in home waters throughout the Pacific War. Yakumo became a repatriation transport after the war and was broken up in 1946–47.