Tenryū-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Sister ship Kuma. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
American Omaha-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Kuma-class preceded by Tenryū-class succeeded by Nagara-class. Designed as an answer on the heavier armed American Omaha-class and Dutch Java-class light cruisers. Ordered under 1917 Fiscal Year, laid down by Kawasaki Shipbuilding, Kobe, Japan on 24 November 1919, launched on 15 July 1920, commissioned on 10 October 1921, torpedoed by American submarine USS Flasher 570 nautical miles south of Hong Kong on 19 July 1944 and stricken on 10 September 1944.
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