Heavy cruiser Furutaka in 1926 |
|
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Furutaka |
| Operators: | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by: | none |
| Succeeded by: | Aoba class |
| In commission: | 25 Feb 1925 - 11 October 1942 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| General characteristics (as per Whitley[1]) | |
| Type: | Heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 7,100 tons standard; 9,540 tons full load |
| Length: | 607 ft (185 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 54 ft (16 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines 12 Kampon boilers 102,000 shp |
| Speed: | 34½ knots |
| Range: | 6,000nm at 14kts |
| Complement: | 625 |
| Armament: |
(initial) |
| Aircraft carried: | (initial) 1, (final) 2 |
| Aviation facilities: | 1 catapult |
The Furutaka class cruisers (古鷹型巡洋艦 Furutaka-gata jun'yōkan) were a class of two Japanese heavy cruisers which saw service during World War II, both were sunk in 1942.
Contents |
The Furutaka class cruisers were the first heavy cruisers in the Japanese Imperial Navy. They were very similar to the later Aoba class cruisers.
| Ship | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| Furutaka (古鷹) | 5 December 1922 | 25 Feb 1925 | 31 March 1926 | Sunk 11 Oct 1942 |
| Kako (加古) | 17 November 1922 | 4 April 1925 | 20 July 1926 | Sunk 10 Aug 1942 |
|
||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||