Japanese cruiser Tokiwa

Tokiwa was the second and last Asama class armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. Japan could not build such warships itself, so Armstrong Whitworth laid her down at its Elswick shipyard on 6 January 1897 as a speculative venture, signed the contract for her on 6 July 1897, launched her on 6 July 1898 and completed her on 18 May 1899. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines and twelve cylindrical boilers gave her a designed speed of 22 knots and she reached 23.1 knots on trials. She fought in the Russo-Japanese War at Port Arthur, off Ulsan and at Tsushima, was converted to a minelayer in 1922 to 1924, and laid minefields in the Pacific War. Beached in 1945 after American air attack, she was salvaged in 1947 and broken up.