Sendai-type light cruisers ( Sendygata Keijun-yokan Japs 内 型 軽 巡洋艦 ) is a type of warship of the Japanese imperial fleet . Officially classified as 2nd class cruisers, later as light cruisers , in fact being used as destroyer squadron leaders .
| Sendai-type light cruisers | |
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| 内 型 軽 巡洋艦 | |
 Light cruiser "Dzintsu" | |
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| Previous type | type "Nagara" |
| Subsequent type | " Yubari " |
| Scheduled | 7 |
| Built by | 3 |
| Losses | 3 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 5900 t (normal) 7609 t (full) [1] |
| Length | 156.9 m (at the waterline), 162.15 m (highest) [1] |
| Width | 14.17 m |
| Draft | 4.9 m |
| Booking | Armor belt - 63 (38 + 25.4) mm; deck - 28.6 mm [1] |
| Engines | 4 MALs of the Mitsubishi-Parsons design (on the Brown-Curtiss Jintsu), 12 Kampon Ro Go Go boilers |
| Power | 90,000 liters with. (66.2 MW ) |
| Mover | 4 propellers |
| Travel speed | 35.25 knots (design) |
| Navigation range | 6000 nautical miles at 14 knots (actual) |
| Crew | 450 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 7 × 1 - 140 mm / 50 Type 3 |
| Flak | Initially: 2 × 76 mm / 40 Type 3 , 2 × 6.5 mm Type 3 machine gun |
| Mine-torpedo armament | 4 × 2 610-mm torpedo tubes (16 Type 8 torpedoes ) 48 min |
| Aviation Group | 1 catapult, 1 fighter Type 10 |
The last, third group of 5500-ton cruisers, differed by a different arrangement of boilers and four (instead of three) chimneys. Of the seven planned in the years 1922−1925 in the shipyards of Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama, three ships were built, all of which served throughout interwar time and were lost during the Second World War.
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Construction
Take that
On the last “Naka”, which was put into operation, the shape of the nasal tip was changed from “spoon-shaped” to clipper, with the longest body length practically unchanged.
Representatives
| Title | Place of construction | Pledged | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
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| Sendai ( jap. 川 内 ) | Mitsubishi Shipyard , Nagasaki | February 16, 1922 [2] | October 30, 1923 [2] | April 29, 1924 [2] | Sunk in battle in the gulf of Empress Augusta on November 2, 1943 |
| Jintsu ( Jap. ) | Kawasaki Shipyard , Kobe | August 4, 1922 [2] | December 8, 1923 [2] | July 31, 1925 [2] | Sunk in the battle of Kolombangar July 13, 1943 |
| Naka ( Jap. 那 珂 ) | Yokohama shipyards | May 24, 1924 [approx. 1] [2] | March 24, 1925 [2] | November 30, 1925 [2] | American deck aircraft sunk during a Truk raid on February 17, 1944 |
| Kako ( jap. 加 古 ) | Sea Arsenal, Sasebo | February 15, 1922 [2] | Order canceled March 17, 1922, disassembled on the stocks | ||
| Camo ( Jap. ) | The titles were assigned on November 5, 1921 , but they were not mortgaged due to the conditions of the Washington Treaty. | ||||
| Kidzu ( jap. 木 津 ) | |||||
| Naero ( jap. 名 寄 ) | |||||
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ The Naka cruiser was originally laid on June 10, 1922, but its hull was destroyed on a stocks during the Great Kanto earthquake .
- References and sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 Lacroix and Wells, 1997 , p. 797.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lacroix and Wells, 1997 , p. 796.
Literature
- Eric Lacroix, Linton Wells II. Japanese cruisers of the Pacific war. - Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. - 882 p. - ISBN 1-86176-058-2 .
- Ivanov S.V. Light cruisers of Japan. - Beloretsk: Nota, 2005. - 156 p. - (War at sea number 25).
- Mikhailov A.A. Light cruisers of Japan. 1917-1945 .. - St. Petersburg, 2005. - 120 p.
- Patyanin S.V., Dashyan A.V. et al. Cruiser of the Second World War. Hunters and defenders. - M .: Collection, Yauza, EKSMO, 2007. - 362 p. - (Arsenal collection). - ISBN 5-69919-130-5 .