Japanese cruiser Naka

Naka in 1925, at Yokohama prior to commissioning
History
Empire of Japan
NameNaka
NamesakeNaka River
Ordered1920 Fiscal Year
BuilderMitsubishi
Laid down10 June 1922
Launched24 March 1925
Commissioned30 November 1925[1]
Stricken31 March 1944
Fate
  • sunk 18 February 1944
  • bombed by USN carrier aircraft near Truk
  • 07°15′N 151°15′E / 7.250°N 151.250°E / 7.250; 151.250.
General characteristics
Class and typeSendai-class light cruiser
Displacement5,195 long tons (5,278 t) (standard)
Length152.4 m (500 ft 0 in)
Beam14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Installed power90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Propulsion
  • 4 × Parsons geared turbines
  • 10 × Kampon boilers
  • 4 × shafts
Speed35.3 kn (65.4 km/h; 40.6 mph)
Range5,000 nmi (9,000 km; 6,000 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement452
Armament
Armor
  • Belt: 64 mm (2.5 in)
  • Deck: 29 mm (1.1 in)
Aircraft carried1 × floatplane
Aviation facilities1 × catapult

Naka (那珂) was a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), named after the Naka River in the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures of eastern Japan. Naka was the third (and final) vessel completed in the Sendai class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla.

  1. ^ Lacroix, Japanese Cruisers, p. 794