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Light cruiser Naka

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Classification

Ship class:
Sendai-class cruiser
Type:
Light cruiser

Basic information

Namesake:
Naka River
Operator:
Imperial Japanese NavyImperial Japanese Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Yokohama Dock Company
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Sunk:
Status:
Sunk
Fate:
Sunk 18 February 1944, bombed by USN carrier aircraft near Truk

Ship measurements

Displacement:
5,595 t
Length:
162.46 m
Beam (waterline):
14.2 m
Draft:
4.8 m

Machine

Propulsion:
  • 4 * Parsons geared turbines
  • 10 * Kampon boilers
  • 4 * shafts
  • 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Speed:
35.3 knots
Range:
5,000 nmi (9,000 km; 6,000 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
452

Combat assets

Armor:
  • Belt: 64 mm (2.5 in)
  • Deck: 29 mm (1.1 in)
Armament:
  • 7 * 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns
  • 2 * 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval guns
  • 8 * 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4*2)
  • 48 * naval mines
Aircraft:

1 * floatplane

Naka was a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Naka River in the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures of eastern Japan. Naka was the third (and final) vessel completed in the Sendai class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla.

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