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Japanese battleship KĹŤtetsu
Kōtetsu (Japanese: 甲鉄, literally "Ironclad", later renamed Azuma 東, "East") was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in France in 1864, and acquired from the United States in February 1869, she was an ironclad ram warship.
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