Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Aoba-class cruiser
Aoba class
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- In commission
- 20 September 1927 – 28 July 1945
- Preceded by
- Furutaka-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Myōkō-class cruiser
- Builders
- Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Eng., Nagasaki
- Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As per Whitley
- Displacement, standard
- 7,100 long tons (7,214 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 8,900 long tons (9,043 t)
- Length
- 185 m (607 ft) OA
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 625
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- (initial)
- 6 × 20 cm/50-cal Mark I guns (3 × 2)
- 4 × 12 cm/45-cal (4 × 1)
- 12 × 61 cm torpedo tubes (6 × 2)
- (final)
- 6 × 8 in/50-cal Mark II guns (3 × 2)
- 4 × 12 cm/45-cal (4 × 1)
- 8 × 25 mm (4 × 2) machine guns
- 8 × 61 cm Type 93 torpedo tubes (2 × 4)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Aoba | 1927 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| Japanese cruiser Kinugasa | 1927 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Aoba-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.