Sendai-class cruiser

Basic information

Type:

Cruiser

Operators:

Imperial Japanese Navy

Country of build:

Empire of Japan

Builder:

Yokohama Dock Company

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation

Planned:

Cancelled:

Completed:

Lost:

In service:

1924 – 1944 (20 years)

Ship measurements

Displacement:

5,685 t

Length:

162.15 m

Beam:

14.17 m

Machine

Propulsion:

4 * geared steam turbines (Brown-Curtiss in Jintsū, Parsons in Sendai and Naka)
12 * Kampon boilers (8 x oil-fed and 4 x coal-fed) (initial powerplant)
10 * Kampon oil-fed boilers (after 1934)
4 * shafts

Speed:

35.25 knots

Range:

9,300 km at 14 kn

Personnel

Complement:

440

Combat assets

Armor:

Deck: 2.9 cm (1.1 in)
Belt: 6.4 cm (2.5 in)

Armament:

Sendai, 1924:

7 * 140 mm (5.5 in)/50 guns
2 * 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun (anti-aircraft guns)
8 * 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4x2)
16 * 610 mm (24 in) torpedoes
56 * naval mines

Naka, Spring 1941:

7 * 140 mm (5.5 in) guns
4 * Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) anti-aircraft autocannons (2x2)
2 * 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns (2x1)
8 * 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2x4)
16 * 610 mm (24 in) torpedoessome depth charges

Naka, March 1943:

6 * 140 mm (5.5 in) guns
2 * 127 mm (5 in)/40 dual purpose guns (1x2)
10 * 25 mm (0.98 in) AAGs (2x3, 2x2)
2 * 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns (1x2)
8 * 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2x4)
16 * 610 mm (24 in) Type 93 torpedoessome depth charges

Aircraft:

1 * wheeled fighter
1 * floatplane (1933)

The Sendai-class cruisers were a group of warships operated by the Imperial 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 the Pacific War and were mainly used as destroyer flotilla leaders.