Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Takao-class cruiser
Takao class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Preceded by
- Myōkō-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Mogami-class cruiser
- Builders
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe
- Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, Nagasaki
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 11,350 long tons (11,532 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 15,245 long tons (15,490 t)
- Length
- 203.76 m (668.5 ft) OA
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Complement
- 773
- Main gun
- 200 mm (7.9 in)
- Armament
- Original layout:
- 10 × 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type No.2 naval guns (5x2)
- 4 × Type 10 12 cm high angle guns (4x1)
- 8 × 61 cm torpedo tubes (4×2, 24 Type 90 torpedoes)
- 2 × 40 mm AA guns (2x1)
- 2 x 7.7 mm Type 92 MG (2x1)
- Final layout (Takao and Atago):
- 10 × 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type No.2 naval guns (5x2)
- 8 × Type 89 12.7 cm dual purpose guns (4x2)
- 60 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (30x1, 6x2, 6x3)
- 16 torpedo tubes (4×4, plus 8 reloads; 24 Type 93 torpedoes)
- Depth charges
- Final layout (Maya):
- 8 × 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type No.2 naval guns (4x2)
- 12 × Type 89 12.7 cm dual purpose guns, (6x2)
- 66 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (13x3, 27x1)
- 36 × Type 93 13.2 mm AA machine guns
- 16 torpedo tubes (4×4, with no reloads)
- Depth charges
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Atago | 1932 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Chōkai | 1932 | Scuttled 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Maya | 1932 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Takao (1930) | 1930 | 1932 | Target 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Takao-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.