Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Kuma-class cruiser
Kuma class
The class in numbers
- 5 Planned
- 5 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1917–1921
- In commission
- 1920–1946
- Preceded by
- Tenryū-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Nagara-class cruiser
- Builders
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal (2)
- Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, Nagasaki (2)
- Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 5,500 long tons (5,588 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 5,832 long tons (5,926 t)
- Length
- 162.1 m (531.8 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 450
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- 7 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns
- 2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval guns
- 2 × 6.5mm light AA machine guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4x2)
- 48 naval mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Kiso | 1921 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Kitakami | 1921 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| Japanese cruiser Kuma | 1920 | Sunk | |
| Japanese cruiser Ōi | 1921 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Tama | 1921 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Kuma-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.