Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Tenryū-class cruiser
The class in numbers
- 8 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 6 Cancelled
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1917–1919
- In commission
- 1919–1944
- Preceded by
- Chikuma-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Kuma-class cruiser
- Builders
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 3,948 long tons (4,011 t)
- Length
- 142.9 m (468.8 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 327
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- July 1937 to November 1940
- 4 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns (4x1)
- 1 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun (1x1)
- 2 × Type 93 13 mm AA machine guns (2x1)
- 6 × 533 mm Type 6 torpedo tubes (2x3)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Tatsuta (1918) | 1918 | 1919 | Sunk |
| Japanese cruiser Tenryū | 1919 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Tenryū-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.