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Nagara-class light cruiser 5,832 26 May 1925 26 October 1944; Sunk by USAAF aircraft off Negros Island: Sendai: Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Sendai-class light cruiser: 5,195 29 April 1924 3 November 1943; Sunk by USN cruisers at Empress Augusta Bay: Jintsu: Kawasaki, Kobe: Sendai-class light cruiser 5,195 31 July 1925
Kitakami and Ōi later converted to a torpedo cruiser under a short-lived Imperial Japanese Navy program. Kiso was also planned to be converted but no modifications took place. Nagara-class: Light cruiser: Nagara Isuzu Yura Natori Kinu Abukuma: 5,570 tonnes Yūbari-class: Light cruiser: Yūbari: 2,890 tonnes An experimental light cruiser ...
Of the eight battlecruiser hulls laid down by Japan (the four Kongō and four Amagi class), none survived the Second World War. Amagi was being converted to an aircraft carrier when its hull was catastrophically damaged by the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 and subsequently broken up , while the last two of the Amagi class were scrapped in ...
(Japanese Cypress) Mar 1944 Sep 1944 Surface action off Manila Bay, Jan 1945 ‡ Kaede (Maple) Mar 1944 Oct 1944 To Rep. of China, Jul 1947 Kashi (Live Oak) May 1944 Sep 1944 Scrapped 1947 Kaya (Japanese Nutmeg-Yew) Apr 1944 Sep 1944 To USSR, Jul 1947 Keyaki (Japanese Elm) Jun 1944 Dec 1944 Sunk as target, 1947 Kiri (Paulownia Hardwood) Feb 1944
In 1942, Japanese submarines managed to sink two fleet carriers (Yorktown and Wasp), one cruiser , and a few destroyers and other warships, and damage several others (aircraft carrier Saratoga). [81] They were not able to sustain these results afterwards, as Allied fleets were reinforced and started using better anti-submarine tactics including ...
Japanese Heavy Cruisers in World War II. Squadron Signal Publications. ISBN 0-89747-498-8. Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Watts, Anthony J. (1967). Japanese Warships of World War II ...
After the construction of the Tenryū-class cruisers, the drawbacks of the small cruiser concept became apparent. At the end of 1917, plans for an additional six Tenryū-class vessels, plus three new-design 7,200 ton-class scout cruisers were shelved, in place of an intermediate 5,500 ton-class vessel which could be used as both a long-range, high speed reconnaissance ship, and also as a ...
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.'