Japanese cruiser Kashima
Service
- as Kashima31 May 1940 — 5 October 19451,923 days of the war
- Name
- Kashima
- Builder
- Mitsubishi
- Ordered
- 1938
- Laid down
- 6 October 1938
- Launched
- 25 September 1939
- Commissioned
- 31 May 1940
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
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)
Kashima was a Katori-class cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi on 6 October 1938. She entered service on 31 May 1940, having been launched on 25 September 1939.
Her class ran to three ships.
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 1,923 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1947.
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 Kashima 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