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 Sendai, note the wider third funnel | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Sendai class |
| Builders | |
| Operators |  Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by | Nagara class |
| Succeeded by | Agano class |
| Built | 1922-1925 |
| In commission | 1924-1944 |
| Planned | 8 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Canceled | 5 |
| Lost | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Light cruiser |
| Displacement |
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| Length |
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| Beam | 14.17 m (46 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
| Depth | 8.85 m (29 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35.25 kn (65.28 km/h; 40.56 mph) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 440 |
| Armament |
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| Armor | |
| Aircraft carried |
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| Aviation facilities |
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TheSendai-class light cruisers (川内型軽巡洋艦,Sendai-gata keijun'yōkan) were aclass of three warships operated by theImperial Japanese Navy. The vessels in the class were named after rivers according to the navy's light cruiser naming rule. They participated in numerous actions during thePacific War and were mainly used as destroyer flotilla leaders.
TheSendai-class light cruisers were a development of the precedingNagara class. Their boilers were better located, and they had four funnels instead of three. Each ship was designed with aflying-off platform and hangar, but did not actually carry aircraft until acatapult system was installed in 1929.
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Eight additional 5,500-ton cruisers were planned to be built under theEight-eight fleet Program. FourSendai-class light cruisers were authorised to be constructed inJapan in 1921 and were laid down, but the last —Kako — was scrapped on the slipway in accordance with the regulations of the 1922Washington Naval Treaty. The other three were sunk duringWorld War II. Another four units were authorised to be built to the same design in 1922, but were cancelled following the signing of the Treaty after Japan decided that future cruiser construction would focus on heavy cruisers (the heavy cruisersFurutaka andKako were built in place of two of the five cancelledSendai Class cruisers).
| Ship | Kanji | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sendai | 川内 | Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Nagasaki Yard | 16 February 1922 | 30 October 1923 | 29 April 1924 | Sunk during theBattle of Empress Augusta Bay, 2 November 1943 |
| Jintsū | 神通 | Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Kobe Yard | 4 August 1922 | 8 December 1923 | 31 July 1925 | Sunk during theBattle of Kolombangara, 13 July 1943 |
| Naka | 那珂 | Yokohama Dock Company | 10 June 1922 | 24 March 1925 | 30 November 1925 | Hull was burned byearthquake, later scrapped; Laid down once again, 24 May 1924; Sunk duringOperation Hailstone, 17 February 1944 |
| Kako | 加古 | Sasebo Naval Arsenal | 15 February 1922 | N/a | N/a | Discontinued byWashington Naval Treaty on 17 March 1922 and scrapped; naval budget was used for theFurutaka-classcruiserof the same name |
| Ayase | 綾瀬 | N/a | N/a | N/a | N/a | Cancelled and re-planned asFurutaka in March 1922 |
| Minase | 水無瀬 | N/a | N/a | N/a | N/a | Cancelled following theWashington Naval Treaty |
| Otonase | 音無瀬 | |||||
| (unnamed cruiser) | N/a |
