X-Nico

unusual facts about Japanese cruiser ''Naniwa''



Battle of Keelung

On 26 May the transports, escorted by the warships Matsushima and Naniwa, reached the Japanese-owned Ryukyu Islands to the northeast of Taiwan, and anchored off the port of Nakagusuku on the eastern coast of Okinawa.

Iwate

Japanese cruiser Iwate, an armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1900 to the end of World War II.

Japanese ship Kashima

Japanese cruiser Kashima, a Katori class light cruiser operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 until 1947

John Elliott Smart

Lieutenant Commander John Elliott "Jack" Smart DSO OBE VRD (1 March 1916 – 3 February 2008) was an officer in the Royal Navy commanding one of the midget submarines that attacked the German cruiser Lützow and the Japanese cruiser Takao during the Second World War.

Naniwa

Japanese cruiser Naniwa, the first protected cruiser built specifically for the Imperial Japanese Navy

日本橋

Nipponbashi, a shopping district of Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan


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