Japanese cruiser Nagara
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Nagara (長良) was the lead ship of her class of light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy.[3] She was named after the Nagara River in the Chūbu region of Japan.
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Japanese light cruiser Nagara | |
History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Nagara |
Ordered | 1919 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
Laid down | 9 September 1920 |
Launched | 25 April 1921 |
Commissioned | 21 April 1922[1] |
Stricken | 10 October 1944 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk off Amakusa Islands, East China Sea, 32°09′N 129°53′E, 7 August 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Nagara-class cruiser |
Displacement | 5,570 long tons (5,659 t) [2] |
Length | 162.1 m (531 ft 10 in)[2] |
Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)[2] |
Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)[2] |
Installed power | 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)[2] |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)[2] |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 36 kn[2] |
Complement | 450[2] |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × floatplane |
Aviation facilities | 1 aircraft catapult |
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