Japanese cruiser Kashii
Service
- as Kashii15 July 1941 — 20 March 19451,344 days of the war
- Name
- Kashii
- Builder
- Mitsubishi
- Ordered
- 1939
- Laid down
- 4 October 1939
- Launched
- 15 October 1940
- Commissioned
- 15 July 1941
- Struck
- 20 March 1945
- Fate
- sunk 12 January 1945
bombed/torpedoed by USN aircraft off French Indochina, South China Sea109
By aircraft (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,890 long tons (5,985 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,180 long tons (6,279 t)
- Length
- 129.77 m (425.8 ft)
- Beam
- 15.95 m (52.3 ft)
- Draught
- 5.75 m (18.9 ft)
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
- Range
- 9,000 nmi (16,668 km)
- Complement
- 315
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
Kashii was a Katori-class cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi on 4 October 1939. She entered service on 15 July 1941, having been launched on 15 October 1940.
She was one of three ships of her class.
Displacement was 5,890 long tons standard and 6,180 long tons at full load. She measured 129.8 m (426 ft) long with a beam of 15.9 m (52 ft). Her designed speed was 18 knots, and she carried a complement of 315.
Her main battery was four 140 mm (5.5 in) guns. She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 1,344 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 March 1945.
She was sunk on 12 January 1945 by aircraft, at 13°50′N 109°20′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
- 2-shaft geared turbines, plus diesel motors
- 3 Kampon boilers
- 8000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × 140 mm/50 cal. guns (2×2)
- 2 × 127 mm/40 cal. AA guns (1×2)
- 4 × Type 96 AA guns (later increased to 30)
- 8 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2×2)
- Aircraft
- 1 × floatplane
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese cruiser Kashii 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