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CAG 17/A16-3 reported Iowa hit Katori with her second salvo. Just after Iowa ' s fourth salvo, Katori quickly listed to port exposing seven large shell holes about 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter in her starboard side, one under the bridge about five feet below the waterline, another amidships about at the waterline, plus about nine smaller holes. [2]
5 planned, 1 converted into an Aircraft carrier, 2 cancelled. ... Katori-class: Light cruiser: Katori Kashima Kashii: 5,890 tonnes 4 planned; 1 cancelled.
The design of the Katori class was a modified and improved version of the Royal Navy's King Edward VII-class battleships. [98] Completed after the end of the Russo–Japanese War, the ships never saw combat. Katori had a major fire in one of her secondary-gun turrets in 1907 that killed 34 men and wounded 8 others. [99]
Japanese cruiser Katori, is a Katori-class cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched in 1939 and sunk in 1944; JDS Katori (TV-3501), a training vessel of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force launched in 1968 and decommissioned in 1998 [1]
The Katori Shrine (香取神宮, Katori Jingū) is a Shintō shrine in the city of Katori in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.It is the ichinomiya of former Shimōsa Province, and is the head shrine of the approximately 400 Katori shrines around the country (located primarily in the Kantō region). [1]
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Katori Maru, an ocean liner and troop ship completed in 1913 and sunk in 1941; Katori Maru, a cargo ship launched in 1938 and sunk in 1945; Japanese cruiser Katori, a cruiser launched in 1939 and sunk in 1944; JMSDF Katori (TV-3501), a training ship commissioned in 1969 and withdrawn in 1998
Unusually for IJN ships, the Katori class had mixed steam turbine/diesel propulsion, intended to maximize the ships' instructional value rather than speed: even at a combined 6,000 kW (8,000 shp) the maximum speed was only 33 km/h (18 kn), too slow for conventional cruiser duties.