Japanese cruiser Isuzu
Service
- as Isuzu15 August 1923 — 20 June 19452,119 days of the war
- Name
- Isuzu
- Builder
- Uraga Dock Company
- Ordered
- 1920
- Laid down
- 10 August 1920
- Launched
- 29 October 1921
- Commissioned
- 15 August 1923
- Struck
- 20 June 1945
- Fate
- Sunk 7 April 1945 off Sumbawa, Java Sea (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,570 long tons (5,659 t)
- Length
- 162.1 m (531.8 ft) OA
- Beam
- 14.2 m (46.6 ft)
- Draught
- 4.8 m (15.7 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 450
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
Isuzu was a Nagara-class cruiser, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Uraga Dock Company on 10 August 1920. Launched on 29 October 1921, she entered service on 15 August 1923.
Six ships of the class were built. The class followed the Kuma-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Japanese cruiser Yūbari (chronologically).
Displacement was 5,570 long tons. She measured 162.1 m (532 ft) long with a beam of 14.2 m (47 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 450.
Her main battery was seven 140 mm (5.5 in) guns. Her belt armour was 60 mm (2.4 in) and her deck 30 mm. She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 2,119 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 June 1945.
She was sunk on 7 April 1945, at 7°38′S 118°09′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 shaft Gihon geared turbines
- 12 Kampon boilers
- 90000 shp
- Armament
- (Initial)
- 7 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns
- 2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval guns
- 4 × twin 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 48 naval mines
- (Final) 3 × twin 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval guns
- 11 × triple, 17 × single Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- depth charges
- Armour
- Belt: 60 mm
- Deck: 30 mm
- Aircraft
- 1 × floatplane
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese cruiser Isuzu on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Imperial Japanese Navy official photograph per naval achives kept at museum — Mikasa Memorial Museum, Yokosuka, Japan — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons