// Workers AI · dad joke modeDid the Chikuma go to the party? It had a hull of a time.
At least three warships of Japan have borne the name Chikuma after the Chikuma River in Nagano Prefecture:
- Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1911), a Chikuma-class protected cruiser that was commissioned in 1912 and sunk as a target in 1935.
- Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1938), a Tone-class heavy cruiser that was commissioned in 1939 and scuttled in 1944 after the Battle off Samar.
- JS Chikuma, an Abukuma-class destroyer escort launched in 1992
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