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Design B-65 was a class of cruisers planned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before and during World War II.The IJN referred to this design as a 'Super Type A' cruiser; It was larger than most heavy cruisers but smaller than most battlecruisers, and as such, has been variously described as a 'super-heavy cruiser,' a 'super cruiser,' or as a 'cruiser-killer.'
The design diverged from the IJN destroyer standard of six 5 in (127 mm) guns, instead mounting eight 3.9 in (100 mm) high-velocity guns in four twin high angle mountings. Their rapid fire, 90° elevation and excellent AA fire control system provided an effective dual purpose weapon to the Imperial Japanese Navy for the first time.
Asama-class armoured cruiser: 9,700 18 March 1899 30 November 1945; Scrapped Tokiwa: Armstrong Whitworth, UK Asama-class armoured cruiser 9,700 18 May 1899 9 August 1945; destroyed by USN aircraft at Ominato: Yakumo: Stettiner Vulcan AG, Germany: Armoured cruiser 9,646 20 June 1900 20 July 1946; scrapped Azuma: Saint-Nazaire shipyards, France ...
The Amagi class (天城型, Amagi-gata) was a series of four battlecruisers planned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as part of the Eight-eight fleet in the early 1920s. The ships were to be named Amagi, Akagi, Atago, and Takao.
The Imperial Japanese Navy (大日本帝国海軍) built four battlecruisers, with plans for an additional four, during the first decades of the 20th century. The battlecruiser was an outgrowth of the armoured cruiser concept, which had proved highly successful against the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima at the end of the Russo ...
Destroyers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; the Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships. Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-630-8. Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia.
The turbines were rated at a total of 52,000 shaft horsepower (39,000 kW) for a designed speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). [ 3 ] The main armament of the Yūgumo class consisted of six Type 3 127-millimeter (5.0 in) guns in three twin- gun turrets , one superfiring pair aft and one turret forward of the superstructure . [ 2 ]
The action of 8 June 1945, sometimes called the Sinking of Ashigara was a naval action that resulted in the sinking of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) heavy cruiser Ashigara by the British submarine HMS Trenchant. Ashigara was transporting Japanese troops from the Dutch East Indies for the defence of Singapore and its loss caused many casualties.