Myōkō-class cruiser

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Class overview
Nachi
Name:	Myōkō-class
Operators:	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by:	Aoba class
Succeeded by:	Takao class
Built:	1924–1929
In commission:	1928–1946
Completed:	4
Lost:	3
General characteristics ^[1]
Type:	Heavy cruiser
Displacement:	11,633 tons (standard load) 14,980 tons (full load)
Length:	668 ft (204 m) overall
Beam:	57 ft (17 m)
Draught:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	4-shaft geared turbines 12 Kampon boilers 130,000 shp
Speed:	35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Range:	8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement:	773
Armament:	• 10 × 20 cm (7.9 in) guns (5×2) • 6 × 4.7 in (120 mm) guns (6×1) • 12 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes (4×3)
Aircraft carried:	2
Aviation facilities:	1 catapult

The four Myōkō-class cruisers (妙高型巡洋艦, Myōkō-gata jun'yōkan) were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1920s. Three were lost during World War II.

The ships of this class displaced 11,633 tons (standard), were 201 m (661 ft) long, and were capable of 36 knots (67 km/h). They carried two aircraft and their main armament was ten 20-centimetre (7.9 in) guns in five twin turrets. At the time, this was the heaviest armament of any cruiser class in the world. They were also the first cruisers the Japanese Navy constructed that exceeded the (10,000 ton) limit set by the Washington Naval Treaty.

Ships in class

The ships in the class were:

Name	Builder	Laid	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Myōkō (妙高)	Yokosuka Navy Yard	25 Oct 1924	16 April 1927	31 July 1929	Scuttled, 8 July 1946
Nachi (那智)	Kure Navy Yard	26 Nov 1924	15 June 1927	26 Nov 1928	Sunk, 4 November 1944 in Manila Bay by aircraft from USS Lexington
Haguro (羽黒)	Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard	16 Mar 1925	24 March 1928	25 Apr 1929	Sunk, 16 May 1945 by R.N. 26th Destroyer Flotilla
Ashigara (足柄)	Kōbe-Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard	11 Apr 1925	22 Apr 1928	20 August 1929	Sunk, 8 June 1945 by submarine HMS Trenchant

References

Notes

↑ Whitley, Cruisers of WWII, p. 173

Books

Whitley, M J (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-225-1.
Lacroix, Eric; Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

External links

CombinedFleet.com: Myōkō class cruisers

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Myōkō Ashigara Nachi Haguro

List of cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Japanese naval ship classes of World War II

Aircraft carriers

Light aircraft carriers

Escort carriers

Navy	Taiyō^C Kaiyo^SC Shinyo^SC Shimane Maru^C

Army	Akitsu Maru^C Yamashio Maru^C Kumano Maru^SC

Battleships

Heavy cruisers

Furutaka
Aoba
Myōkō
Takao
Mogami^L
Tone
Ibuki^I
Yakumo (Reclassified)^S
Izumo (Reclassified)

Light cruisers

Destroyers

1st class	Minekaze Kamikaze Mutsuki Fubuki Akatsuki Hatsuharu Shiratsuyu Asashio Kagerō Yūgumo Akizuki Shimakaze^S Matsu Tachibana

2nd class	Momi Wakatake

Torpedo boats

Submarines

1st class	Junsen Type A (Kō) Type B (Otsu) Type C (Hei) Type D (Tei) Kaidai Kiraisen (I-121) Senho (I-351) Sentoku (I-400) Sentaka (I-201)

2nd class	Kaichū Type L Ko Sen'yu-Ko Sentaka-Ko

Army	Maru Yu

Submarine tenders

Jingei

Gunboats

Ocean	Saga^S Ataka^S Hashidate Okitsu (ex-RN Lepanto)^SC

River	Toba^S Seta Atami Fushimi Kotaka^S Karatsu (ex-USS Luzon)^S Maiko (ex-PN Macau)^S Narumi (ex-RN Ermanno Carlotto)^S Suma (ex-HMS Moth)^S Tatara (ex-USS Wake)^S

Escort ships

Small craft

Daihatsu (landing craft)
Shinyo (suicide boat)
Kaiten (manned torpedo)
Type A Ko-hyoteki (midget submarine)
Kairyu (midget submarine)

S: Single ship of class
C: Converted to ship type
L: Officially classed as light cruisers under Washington Naval Treaty until 1939 refits
I: Incomplete until the end of the war
X: Cancelled

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