Japanese cruiser Abukuma
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 1920 |
| Laid down: | 8 December 1921 |
| Launched: | 16 March 1923 |
| Commissioned: | 26 May 1925[1] |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | sunk 26 October 1944 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5088 tons (standard) 5832 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 534 ft 9 in (163 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft 5 in (14.8 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shaft Gihon reared turbines 12 Kampon boilers 90,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
| Range: | 9000 nautical miles at 10 knots |
| Complement: | 438 |
| Aircraft: | 1 Type 90 seaplane, 1 catapult |
| Armament: | 7 × 5.5 in (140 mm) guns (7x1) up to 36 × 25 mm AA guns, 6 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 24" torpedo tubes (4x2) |
Abukuma was a Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Abukuma River.
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[edit] References
[edit] Books
- Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 155750914X.
- D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 081595302X.
- Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
- Lacroix, Eric, Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870213113.
[edit] External links
- Parshall, Jon; Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp, & Allyn Nevitt. CombinedFleet.com: Nagara class Imperial Japanese Navy Page (Combinedfleet.com). Retrieved on 2006-06-14. tabular record: CombinedFleet.com: Abukuma history
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lacroix, Japanese Cruisers, p. 794.
[edit] See also
| Nagara-class cruiser |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
