Japanese cruiser Kinu

Kinu in 1931
History
Empire of Japan
NameKinu
NamesakeKinu River
Ordered1920 Fiscal Year (1918 "8-6 Fleet" Plan)
BuilderKawasaki Shipyards, Kobe
Laid down17 January 1921
Launched29 May 1922
Commissioned10 November 1922[1]
Stricken20 December 1944
Fate
General characteristics
Class and typeNagara-class cruiser
Displacement
  • 5088 tons (standard)
  • 5832 tons (full load)
Length534 ft 9 in (162.99 m)
Beam48 ft 5 in (14.76 m)
Draught16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion
  • 4 shaft Gihon geared turbines
  • 12 Kampon boilers
  • 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Speed36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Range9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement438
Armament
Armor
  • Belt: 60 mm (2.4 in)
  • Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in)
Aircraft carried1 x floatplane
Aviation facilities1x aircraft catapult

Kinu (鬼怒) was the fifth of the six ships completed Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Kinu River in Tochigi prefecture Japan. She was active in World War II in various campaigns in Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea before being sunk by United States Navy carrier-based aircraft in the Philippines in 1944.

  1. ^ Lacroix, Japanese Cruisers, p. 794.