Japanese cruiser Kiso showing Arctic camouflage during the Aleutians Campaign, 1942
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History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Kiso |
Namesake | Kiso River |
Ordered | 1917 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki |
Cost | 6,915,078 JPY |
Laid down | 10 August 1918 |
Launched | 14 December 1920 |
Commissioned | 4 May 1921 |
Stricken | 20 December 1944 |
Fate | Sunk 13 November 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kuma-class cruiser |
Displacement | 5,100 long tons (5,182 t) standard |
Length | 152.4 m (500 ft 0 in) o/a |
Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Complement | 450 |
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Armor | |
Aircraft carried | 1 x floatplane, 1 catapult |
Kiso (木曾) was the fifth and last of the five Kuma-class light cruisers, which served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was named after the Kiso River in central Honshū, Japan.