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Officers of the brand new Japanese protected cruiser IJN Naniwa posing near one of her 26 cm (10.2") guns, 1885
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As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to construct such vessels, the ship was designed and built in the United Kingdom. She participated in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, playing a major role in the Battle of the Yalu River.







