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 Sendai |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Sendai |
| Builders: | Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard Kōbe-Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard Yokohama Dock Company Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
| Operators: |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by: | Nagara-class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Agano-class cruiser |
| Built: | 1922–1925 |
| In commission: | 1924–1944 |
| Planned: | 8 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Cancelled: | 5 |
| Lost: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Light cruiser |
| Displacement: | 5,195 tons standard, 5,595 tons in battle condition |
| Length: | 162.15 m (532 ft 0 in) overall, 158.53 m (520 ft 1 in) waterline |
| Beam: | 14.17 m (46 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 4.80 m (15 ft 9 in) |
| Depth: | 8.85 m (29 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: |
4 shafts, 90,000 shp (67 MW) 4 x Brown-Curtis geared turbines |
| Speed: | 35.25 knots (40.56 mph/65.28 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 14 kn (16 mph/26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 440 |
| Armament: |
(Sendai, 1924) (Naka, Spring 1941) (Naka, March 1943) • 2 × 13 mm (0.51 in) AAGs (1×2) • 8 × 610 mm (24 in) TTs (2×4) • 16 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedoes • some depth charges |
| Armor: | Deck: 29 mm (1.1 in) Belt: 64 mm (2.5 in) |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 carrier-born fighter 1 floatplane (1933) |
| Aviation facilities: | 1 flying-off platform 1 catapult (1933) |
The Sendai class cruisers (川内型軽巡洋艦 Sendai-gata keijunyōkan?) were a class of light cruisers operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Named after rivers, they participated in numerous actions during the Pacific War and were used mainly used as destroyer flotilla leaders.
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Design
The Sendai class light cruisers were a development of the Nagara class. Their boilers were better located and they had four funnels instead of three. Each ship was designed with a flying-off platform and hangar, but did not actually carry aircraft until a catapult system was installed in 1929.
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Ships in class
Three Sendai class light cruisers were constructed in Japan during the 1920s, four Sendai vessels were laid down, but the last, the Kako was scrapped on the slipway in accordance to the regulations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. All three were sunk during World War II.
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Sendai (川内?) | Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard | 16-02-1922 | 30-10-1923 | 29-04-1924 | Sunk during the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay on 02-11-1943 |
| Jintsū (神通?) | Kōbe-Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard | 04-08-1922 | 08-12-1923 | 31-07-1925 | Sunk during the Battle of Kolombangara on 13-07-1943 |
| Naka (那珂?) | Yokohama Dock Company | 10-06-1922 | 24-03-1925 | 30-11-1925 | Hull was burned by earthquake, later scrapped. Laid down once again on 24-05-1924. Sunk during the Operation Hailstone on 17-02-1944 |
| Kako (加古?) | Sasebo Naval Arsenal | 15-02-1922 | Discontinued by Washington Naval Treaty on 17-03-1922 and scrapped. Naval budget was used for the Furutaka class cruiser. | ||
| Ayase (綾瀬?) | Cancelled and re-planned to Furutaka class cruiser on March 1922. | ||||
| Minase (水無瀬?) Otonase (音無瀬?) and 1 cruiser |
Cancelled by Washington Naval Treaty. |
Books
- Model Art Ship Modelling Special No.29, 5,500 tons class cruisers, Model Art Co. Ltd. (Japan), September 2008, Book code 12319-09
- "Rekishi Gunzō"., History of Pacific War Vol.32 Light cruiser Kuma/Nagara/Sendai classes, Gakken (Japan), August 2001, ISBN 4-05-602582-7
- Daiji Katagiri, Ship Name Chronicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, Kōjinsha (Japan), June 1988, ISBN 4-7698-0386-9
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.27 Sendai class cruisers, Ushio Shobō (Japan), May 1979, Book code 68343-27
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