Japanese cruiser Kitakami
Service
- as Kitakami15 April 1921 — 30 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Kitakami
- Namesake
- Kitakami River
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan
- Ordered
- 1917
- Laid down
- 1 September 1919
- Launched
- 3 July 1920
- Commissioned
- 15 April 1921
- Struck
- 30 November 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped, August 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,100 long tons (5,182 t)
- Length
- 152.4 m (500 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
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 450
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
Kitakami was a Kuma-class cruiser, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Kitakami River. Her keel was laid at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan on 1 September 1919. She entered service on 15 April 1921, having been launched on 3 July 1920.
Her class ran to five ships. The class followed the Tenryū-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Nagara-class cruiser.
Displacement was 5,100 long tons. She measured 152.4 m (500 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 64 mm (2.5 in) and her deck 29 mm. She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 30 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in August 1946.
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
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4x2)
- (as torpedo cruiser)
- 4 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns
- 6 × Type 96 25-mm AA guns (2 triple)
- 40 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (10x4)
- (final)
- 2 × Type 89 127-mm AA guns
- 67 × Type 96 25-mm AA guns (12 triple mounts + 31 single)
- Armour
- Belt: 64 mm
- Deck: 29 mm
- Aircraft
- 1 × floatplane
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese cruiser Kitakami on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Mikasa Memorial Museum — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons