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|bgcolor="lightgrey" align="center"|<big>[[Azuma (Japanese armored cruiser, 1899)|Azuma]]</big><br>吾妻
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|width="80px" valign="top"|'''Plan'''||FY1896
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|'''Builder'''||de la Loire, France
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|'''Laid down'''||Mar 1898
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|'''Launched'''||24 Jun 1899
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|'''Comm'd'''||28 Jul 1900
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|valign="top"|'''Fate'''||15 Feb 1944 disc
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|colspan="2"|'''classification'''<br><ul><li>[[Cruiser first class (Japanese Navy)|Cruiser 1st class]] (1900-1921)<li>[[Coast Defense ship first class (Japanese Navy)|Coast Defense ship 1st class]] (1921-1931)<li>[[Coast Defense ship (Japanese Navy)|Coast Defense ship]] (1931-1942)<li>[[Training ship (Japanese Navy)|Training ship]] (1942-1944)</ul>
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[[Azuma (Japanese armored cruiser, 1899)|Azuma]] [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/wiki31/ja/index.php/%E5%90%BE%E5%A6%BB 吾妻] was a Japanese warship ([[Cruiser first class (Japanese Navy)|Cruiser first class]], [[Coast Defense ship first class (Japanese Navy)|Coast Defense ship first class]], [[Coast Defense ship (Japanese Navy)|Coast Defense ship]], [[Training ship (Japanese Navy)|Training ship]]). The only ship of [[Azuma class armored cruiser (IJN, 1899)|Azuma class armored cruiser]].
==Assignment==
===Commanding officer===
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|||1 May 1899||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Ogura Byoichiro]]||[[5th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|5th class, NA]]||CO, [[Hashidate (Japanese protected cruiser, 1891)|Hashidate]]||CO, Azuma||Chief Delivery crew
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|||14 Mar 1900||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Ogura Byoichiro]]||[[5th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|5th class, NA]]||Chief Delivery crew, Azuma||CO, [[Asahi (Japanese battleship, 1899)|Asahi]]||
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|||24 May 1903
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|||15 Oct 1903||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Fujii Koichi]]||[[7th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|7th class, NA]]||Chief, 2nd Bu, [[Naval General Staff (Japanese Navy)|NGS]]||CoS, [[Second Fleet (Japanese Navy)|2nd Fleet]]||
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|||12 Jan 1905||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Murakami Kakuichi]]||[[11th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|11th class, NA]]||CO, [[Chiyoda (Japanese armored cruiser, 1890)|Chiyoda]]||Chief, 1st Div, [[Naval Education Command (Japanese Navy)|NEC]]||
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|||5 Aug 1905
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|||24 Dec 1906||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Kamiizumi Tokuya]]||[[12th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|12th class, NA]]||CO, [[Naniwa (Japanese protected cruiser, 1885)|Naniwa]]||CO, [[Ikoma (Japanese battlecruiser, 1906)|Ikoma]]||
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|||28 Aug 1908||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Kubota Hikoshichi]]||[[11th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|11th class, NA]]||CO, [[Naniwa (Japanese protected cruiser, 1885)|Naniwa]]||CO, [[Hizen (Japanese battleship, 1905)|Hizen]]||
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|||14 Feb 1909
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==reference==
* [[Azuma (Japanese ironclad, 1869)]] 東
* [[Azuma (Japanese training support ship, 1969)]] あづま
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