Japanese cruiser Isuzu

Isuzu after modification at Mitsubishi Yokohama in 1944
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Isuzu
Ordered	1920 Fiscal Year (1918 "8-6 Fleet" Plan)
Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Laid down	10 August 1920
Launched	29 October 1921
Commissioned	15 August 1923[1]
Stricken	20 June 1945
Fate	Sunk 7 April 1945 off Sumbawa, Java Sea 07°38′S 118°09′E / 7.633°S 118.150°E / -7.633; 118.150
General characteristics
Class and type	Nagara-class cruiser
Displacement	5,570 long tons (5,659 t) normal
Length	162.1 m (531 ft 10 in) o/a 158.6 m (520 ft 4 in) w/l
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	4 shaft Gihon geared turbines 12 Kampon boilers 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	450
Armament	(Initial) 7 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns 2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval guns 4 × twin 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 48 naval mines (Final) 3 × twin 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval guns 11 × triple, 17 × single Type 96 25 mm AA guns depth charges
Armor	Belt: 60 mm (2.4 in) Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in)
Aircraft carried	1 × floatplane
Aviation facilities	1 × aircraft catapult

Isuzu (五十鈴) was the second of six vessels in the Nagara class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was named after the Isuzu River, near Ise Shrine in the Chūbu region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Battle of Hong Kong and in the Solomon Islands campaign, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf before being sunk by American submarines in the Netherlands East Indies in April 1945.