Ibuki-class cruiser

Ibuki being scrapped in drydock, 14 March 1947
Class overview
NameIbuki class
Builders
Operators Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded byTone class
Succeeded byNone
Cost¥60,000,000
Built1942–1945
Planned2
Completed0
Scrapped2
General characteristics (as designed)
TypeHeavy cruiser
Displacement
Length200.6 m (658 ft 2 in)
Beam20.2 m (66 ft 3 in)
Draft6.04 m (19 ft 10 in)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range6,300 nmi (11,700 km; 7,200 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement876
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
Armor
Aircraft carried3
Aviation facilities2 aircraft catapults

The Ibuki-class (伊吹型, Ibuki-gata) cruisers were the last class of heavy cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). In order to save design time, the ships were essentially repeats of the earlier Mogami class. Begun during World War II, only the lead ship, Ibuki, was launched, but she was in the process of being converted into a light aircraft carrier when construction was suspended in 1945. She was scrapped the following year. The unnamed second ship was scrapped less than a month after being laid down in order to clear her slipway for an aircraft carrier.