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| Tonnage | 5890 tons standard displacement |
| Dimensions | 425'10" by 52'4" by 18'11" 129.79m by 15.95m by 5.77m |
| Maximum speed | 18 knots |
| Complement | 315 officers and sailors 275 midshipmen |
| Aircraft | 1 Kure Type 2 Model 5 catapult 1 seaplane |
| Armament | 2x2 6"/50
guns 1x2 5"/40 dual-purpose guns 2x2 25mm AA guns 2x2 21" torpedo tubes |
| Protection | 2" (51mm) HT deck |
| Machinery |
2-shaft combined Kanpon turbine
and diesel 3 Kanpon boilers |
| Bunkerage |
600 tons fuel oil |
| Range |
9900 nautical miles (18,000 km)
at 12 knots |
The Katoris were
completed in 1940-41. Though
classified as light cruisers, they were virtually unarmored, but had
extensive communications
facilities
consistent with use as training
cruisers in peacetime and conversion to fleet flagships in
time of
war. They had strong hulls but poor speed which limited their
usefulness.
They were rather expensive for units of such limited combat value.
| Sunk by Iowa 1944-2-17 at Truk | ||
|
Main Body (Ozawa) in the South China Sea |
Sunk by aircraft
1945-1-12 off Indochina |
References
Lacroix
and Wells
(1997)
Whitley
(1995)
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