Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Mogami-class cruiser
Mogami class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1931–1937
- In commission
- 1935–1944
- Preceded by
- Takao-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Tone-class cruiser
- Builders
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe
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
- 8,500 long tons (8,636 t)
- Length
- 201.6 m (661.4 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Complement
- 850
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- (initial)
- 5 × triple 15.5 cm/60 3rd Year Type guns (replaced by 5 × twin 20.3 cm/50 3rd Year Type 2 guns from 1939)
- 4 × twin 127 mm guns
- 4 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × triple 610 mm torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Kumano | 1936 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese cruiser Mikuma | 1935 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Japanese cruiser Mogami (1934) | 1934 | 1935 | Scuttled 1944 |
| Japanese cruiser Suzuya (1934) | 1934 | 1937 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Mogami-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.