Japanese cruiser Abukuma
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Abukuma.
Abukuma (阿武隈) was the sixth and last of the Nagara class of light cruisers completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was named after the Abukuma River in the Tōhoku region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and in the Pacific, before being disabled in the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, then bombed and sunk by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) off the coast of the Philippines.
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Name | Abukuma |
Ordered | 1920 Fiscal Year (1918 “8-6 Fleet” Plan) |
Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
Laid down | 8 December 1921 |
Launched | 16 March 1923 |
Commissioned | 26 May 1925[1] |
Stricken | 20 December 1944 |
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Class and type | Nagara-class cruiser |
Displacement | 5,570 long tons (5,659 t) normal |
Length | |
Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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Speed | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) |
Complement | 450 |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 21 air-search radar |
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Armor | |
Aircraft carried | 1 x floatplane |
Aviation facilities | 1x aircraft catapult |
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