Japanese ship Tsukuba

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Two ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were named Tsukuba:

Japanese corvette Tsukuba, a screw corvette launched in 1853 as HMS Malacca she was acquired by Japan about 1890 and renamed. She was stricken in 1906
Japanese cruiser Tsukuba, a Tsukuba-class cruiser launched in 1905 and sunk in 1917

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Tsukuba (筑波) was the lead ship of the two-ship Tsukuba class of armoured cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after Mount Tsukuba located in Ibaraki prefecture north of Tokyo. On 28 August 1912, Tsukuba was re-classified as a battlecruiser.

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