Japanese cruiser Kashima

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned: 31 May 1940
Decommissioned:
Fate: Scrapped, 15 June 1947
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 6,280 tons
Length: 425 ft 9 in (130 m)
Beam: 52 ft 4 in (16.0 m)
Draft: 18 ft 10 in (5.7 m)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:
Aircraft:
Armament: 4 × 5.5 in (140 mm) guns,
2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns,
up to 30 × 25 mm AA guns,
8 × 13 mm AA guns,
4 × 24" torpedo tubes

Kashima was a Katori-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Kashima Shrine in Kashima, Ibaraki.


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