Japanese cruiser Kinugasa
Service
- as Kinugasa30 September 1927 — 15 December 19421,201 days of the war
- Name
- Kinugasa
- Namesake
- Mount Kinugasa
- Builder
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 24 October 1924
- Launched
- 24 October 1926
- Commissioned
- 30 September 1927
- Struck
- 15 December 1942
- Fate
- Sunk 13 November 1942 by American aircraft during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal at 157
By aircraft (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,300 long tons (8,433 t)
- Length
- 185.17 m (607.5 ft)
- Beam
- 15.83 m (51.9 ft)
- Draught
- 5.71 m (18.7 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 643
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
Kinugasa was a Aoba-class cruiser heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named for Mount Kinugasa. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Heavy Industries on 24 October 1924. She entered service on 30 September 1927, having been launched on 24 October 1926.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Furutaka-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Myōkō-class cruiser.
Displacement was 8,300 long tons. She measured 185.2 m (608 ft) long with a beam of 15.8 m (52 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 643.
Her main battery was six 201 mm (7.9 in) guns. Her belt armour was 76 mm (3.0 in) and her deck 36 mm. She carried one aircraft. Her machinery developed 102,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,201 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 December 1942.
She was sunk on 13 November 1942 by aircraft, at 8°45′S 157°00′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 × Brown Curtis geared turbines
- 12 × Kampon boilers
- 4 × shafts
- Power
- 102000 shp
- Armament
- As Built: 6 × 7.9 in/50 cal Mark I guns (3x2)
- 4 × 4.7 in/45 cal guns (4x1)
- 12 × 24 in torpedo tubes (6x2)
- Final: 6 × 8 in/50 cal Mark II guns (3x2)
- 4 × 4.7 in/45 cal guns (4x1)
- 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes (2x4)
- 50 × Type 96 25 mm anti-aircraft guns
- Armour
- Belt: 76 mm (belt)
- Deck: 36 mm (deck)
- Aircraft
- 1 × floatplane (initial)
- 2 × floatplanes (final)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese cruiser Kinugasa 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