Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Katori-class cruiser
Katori class
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 1 Cancelled
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1938–1940
- In commission
- 1940–1945
- Builders
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Yokohama
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 5,890 long tons (5,985 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,180 long tons (6,279 t)
- Length
- 129.77 m (425.8 ft)
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
- Complement
- 315
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 140 mm/50 cal. guns (2×2)
- 2 × 127 mm/40 cal. AA guns (1×2)
- 4 × Type 96 AA guns (later increased to 30)
- 8 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2×2)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Kashii | 1941 | Sunk 1945 | |
| Japanese cruiser Kashima | 1940 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| Japanese cruiser Katori | 1940 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Katori-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.