Japanese cruiser Isuzu

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered: 1919
Laid down: 10 August 1920
Launched: 29 October 1921
Commissioned: 15 August 1923[1]
Decommissioned: N/A
Fate: Sunk 7 April 1945
Struck: 20 June 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5,570 tons
Length: 534 ft 9 in (163 m)
Beam: 48 ft 5 in (14.8 m)
Draft: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h)
Complement: 438
Aircraft: 1
Armament: 7 × 5.5 in (140 mm) guns,
up to 36 × 25 mm AA guns,
6 × 13 mm AA guns,
8 × 24" torpedo tubes

Isuzu was a Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Isuzu River.


Contents

[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.

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lacroix, Japanese Cruisers, p. 794.

[edit] See also


Nagara-class cruiser

Nagara | Isuzu | Yura | Natori | Kinu | Abukuma

List of ships of the Japanese Navy


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