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!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| ''Naniwa''-class cruiser
!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| 50px|Japanese Navy Ensign
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|colspan="2"|300px<br>The Japanese cruiser ''Naniwa'' 
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|colspan="2"|300px<br>The Japanese cruiser ''Takachiho'' 
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!colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics
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|Built by:
|Armstrong Whitworth, Great Britain
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|Displacement:
|3,650 tons
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|Length:
|91.4 meters 
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|Beam:
|14 meters
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|Draught:
|6.4 meters
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|Propulsion:
|2-shaft reciprocating engines; 6 boilers; 
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|Speed:
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|Range:
| @ 
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|Complement:
|357
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|Armament:
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*2 × 260 mm guns
*6 × 150 mm guns
*2 × 6 pounder guns
*10 x quadruple Nordenfelt guns
*4 x Gatling guns
*4 × 380 mm torpedoes
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|Armor:
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*50-75 mm deck
*37 mm gun shields
*37 mm conning tower
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The two  were protected cruisers operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They participated in numerous actions during the First Sino-Japanese War.

==Background==
The ''Naniwa''-class naval architect General Sasō Sachū (佐双左仲; 1852-1907) based the design of the ''Naniwa'' on that of the earlier ''IJN ''Izumi''). He also incorporated elements from the popular ''Elswick''-class protected cruisers, which had been built by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth for the export market.

The result was a ship with superior specifications; a ship that, when launched, was considered the most advanced and powerful protected cruiser in the world; however, extremely fast development of technology, weaponry and armor in this field of ship design meant that that the supremacy of this design was very short.

The ''Naniwa'' and ''Takachiho'' together cost £546,980. William Armstrong, Ensign (future admiral) Seki Shigetada. Mr J. Hayashi (naval constructor) Lieutenant (future admiral) Miyahara Jiro (senior engineer). Lord Armstrong said that "the ship was destined to the service of a country which was likely never to come into collision with our own peace-loving country". A Major S.T. Bridgford received £4,000 commission on the sale of the two cruisers and was then appointed as the agent for Armstrong in Japan.

==Design==
The hull of the ''Naniwa''-class cruiser was a typical flush deck with high ram attached to the bow. 

The 35-caliber 260 mm main guns were mounted in single gun turrets fore and aft. The secondary side-mounted 35-caliber, 152 mm guns were located in semi-circular projections off the main deck. 

Propulsion was by two horizontal steam reciprocating engines, 2-shafts, with 6 boilers, yielding a speed of  and a range of  at  based on its capacity for 800 tons of coal. Provision was made for four 360 mm torpedoes in above water, deck-mounted launch racks.

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! colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| 浪速型防護巡洋艦
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|colspan="2"|300px|浪速
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! colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| 艦級概観
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|艦種|| 防護巡洋艦
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|艦名|| 
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|前級|| 
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|次級|| 
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! colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| 要目
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|| 常備：3,709[[トン
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|全長|| 垂線間長：91.44m (300ft)
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|全幅|| 14.07m (46ft 2in)
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|吃水|| 5.67m (18ft 7in1/8)
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|機関|| 円缶6基<br />横置式2気筒2段膨張レシプロ2基<br />2軸、7,604馬力
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|速力|| 18.0ノット
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|航続距離|| 13ノットで9,000海里
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|燃料||石炭800トン
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|乗員|| 357名
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|兵装|| 26cm単装砲2門<br />15.2cm単装砲6門<br />4.7cm単装砲6門<br />25mm4連装機砲10基<br />11mm10連装機砲4基<br />36cm水上魚雷発射管4門
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|装甲|| 甲板水平部50.8mm(2inch)<br />同傾斜部76.2mm(3inch)
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'''浪速型防護巡洋艦'''（なにわがたぼうごじゅんようかん）は日本海軍の防護巡洋艦。同型艦2隻。

== 概要 ==
アームストロング社エルスウィック造船所で建造された。いわゆるエルスウィック・クルーザーの仲間であり、世界最初の防護巡洋艦「エスメラルダ」（後の「和泉」）の優秀性に着目し、日本海軍が発注した初めての防護巡洋艦である。設計は「エスメラルダ」の改良型であり、例えば防御甲板は「エスメラルダ」で水平部1インチ(=25.4mm)に対し浪速型では2インチ(=50.8mm)と強化されている。

1番艦「浪速」は黄海海戦を始め、大連、旅順、威海衛などの各攻略作戦に参加した。1898年（明治31年）の類別制定では二等巡洋艦に類別され、1904年（明治37年）からの日露戦争にも参加し、両艦とも日本海海戦などの各海戦に参加している。「浪速」は1912年（明治45年）に座礁のため喪失。「高千穂」は1912年（大正元年）に海防艦籍に編入され、第一次世界大戦では青島攻略戦（1914年）に参加したが、ドイツ水雷艇S90の雷撃により機雷が誘爆し沈没した。

== 同型艦 ==
* 浪速
* 高千穂