Sendai-class cruiser

Sendai
Sendai, note the wider third funnel
Class overview
NameSendai class
Builders
Operators Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded byNagara class
Succeeded byAgano class
Built1922-1925
In commission1924-1944
Planned8
Completed3
Cancelled5
Lost3
General characteristics
TypeLight cruiser
Displacement
  • 5,195 long tons (5,278 t) (standard)
  • 5,595 long tons (5,685 t) (full load)
Length
  • 158.53 m (520 ft 1 in) (waterline)
  • 162.15 m (532 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam14.17 m (46 ft 6 in)
Draft4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Depth8.85 m (29 ft 0 in)
Installed power
  • 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
  • 154kW 110V electrical[1]
Propulsion
Speed35.25 kn (65.28 km/h; 40.56 mph)
Range5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement440
Armament
Armor
  • Deck: 2.9 cm (1.1 in)
  • Belt: 6.4 cm (2.5 in)
Aircraft carried
Aviation facilities
  • 1 × flying-off platform
  • 1 × catapult (1933)

The Sendai-class light cruisers (川内型軽巡洋艦, Sendai-gata keijun'yōkan) were a class of three warships operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The vessels in the class were named after rivers according to the navy's light cruiser naming rule. They participated in numerous actions during the Pacific War and were mainly used as destroyer flotilla leaders.

  1. ^ Lacroix/Wells p. 37