Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class

Sendai-class cruiser

Sendai class

The class in numbers

Type: Cruiser
Navy: Imperial Japanese Navy
Built: 1922-1925
In commission: 1924-1944
Preceded by: Nagara-class cruiser
Succeeded by: Agano-class cruiser
Builders: Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, Nagasaki
Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe
Yokohama Dock Company
Sasebo Naval Arsenal

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built

Displacement, standard: 5,195 long tons (5,278 t)
Displacement, full load: 5,595 long tons (5,685 t)
Length: 162.15 m (532 ft) OA
Speed: 35.3 knots (65.3 km/h, 40.6 mph)
Complement: 440
Main gun: 140 mm (5.5 in)
Armament: Sendai, 1924: 7 × 140 mm/50 guns
2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun (anti-aircraft guns)
8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (4x2)
16 × 610 mm torpedoes
56 × naval mines
Naka, Spring 1941: 7 × 140 mm guns
4 × Type 96 25 mm anti-aircraft autocannons (2x2)
2 × 13.2 mm anti-aircraft machine guns (2x1)
8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (4x2)
16 × 610 mm torpedoes
some depth charges
Naka, March 1943: 6 × 140 mm guns
2 × 127 mm/40 dual purpose guns (1x2)
10 × 25 mm AAGs (2x3, 2x2)
2 × 13.2 mm anti-aircraft machine guns (1x2)
8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (4x2)
16 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedoes
some depth charges

Vessel	Commissioned	Fate
Japanese cruiser Jintsū	1925	Sunk 1943
Japanese cruiser Naka	1925	Sunk 1944
Japanese cruiser Sendai	1924	Sunk 1943

Facts harvested from Sendai-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.