Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Agano-class cruiser
Agano class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1940-1944
- In commission
- 1942-1945
- Preceded by
- Sendai-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Ōyodo-class cruiser
- Builders
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal (3)
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 6,547 long tons (6,652 t)
- Length
- 174 m (570.9 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 730
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- Agano and Noshiro as built:
- 6 × 152 mm Type 41 guns (3 × 2)
- 4 × 80 mm Type 98 DP guns (2 × 2)
- 6 × 25 mm AA guns (2 × 3)
- 4 × 13.2 mm Type 93 AA machine guns (2 × 2)
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 4)
- 16 Type 95 or Type 2 depth charges
- 3 Type 88 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Agano | 1942 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Noshiro | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Sakawa | 1944 | Target 1946 | |
| Japanese cruiser Yahagi (1942) | 1942 | 1943 | Sunk 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Agano-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.