 Akitsushima in a 1905 postcard
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| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Akitsushima |
| Ordered | 1889 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down | March 1890 |
| Launched | 6 July 1892 |
| Completed | 31 March 1894 |
| Reclassified | Training ship, 30 April 1921 |
| Fate | Scrapped 10 January 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 3,100 long tons (3,150 t) |
| Length | 91.7 m (300 ft 10 in) w/l |
| Beam | 13.14 m (43 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 5.32 m (17 ft 5 in) |
| Propulsion | Horizontal triple expansion steam engines, 2 shafts, 6 boilers, 8,400 ihp (6,300 kW), 800 tons coal |
| Speed | 19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
| Complement | 330 |
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Akitsushima (秋津洲) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), designed and built by the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan. The name Akitsushima comes from an archaic name for Japan, as used in the ancient chronicle Kojiki.