Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Ibuki-class cruiser
Ibuki class
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 0 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1942–1945
- Preceded by
- Tone-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- None
- Builders
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As designed
- Displacement, standard
- 12,027 long tons (12,220 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 14,594 long tons (14,828 t)
- Length
- 200.6 m (658.1 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 876
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 5 × twin 20 cm (8 in) guns
- 4 × twin 12.7 cm (5 in) AA guns
- 4 × twin 2.5 cm (1 in) AA guns
- 2 × twin 13.2 mm Type 93 machine guns
- 4 × quadruple 61 cm torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Ibuki (1943) | 1943 | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Ibuki-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.