Japanese cruiser Myōkō
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Myōkō (妙高) was the name-ship of the 4-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy—the other ships of the class being the Nachi, Ashigara, and Haguro.
The ships of this class displaced 13300 tons, were 204 metres long, and were capable of 36 knots (67 km/h). They carried one aircraft and their main armament was 10 8 inch (203 mm) guns.
Myōkō was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on October 25, 1924, launched and named on April 16, 1927, and was commissioned into the Imperial Navy on July 31, 1929. She was named after a mountain in Niigata prefecture.
She survived the war as a floating battery in Singapore Harbor, and was subsequently towed to the Strait of Malacca and scuttled off Port Swettenham, Malaya near submarines I-501 and I-502.
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[edit] Books
- 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. Imperial Japanese Navy Page (Combinedfleet.com). Retrieved on 2006-06-14.
- Myoko tabular record of movement during WWII
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| Myōkō-class cruiser |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
