Naka of the Sendai-class
Agano of the Agano-class
Part of the Sendai-class of which the Sendai, Kintsu, Naka and Kako were completed. The Ayase was cancelled and replanned as a Furutaka-class cruiser with the Minase, Otonase and an anonymous cruiser cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Preceded by the Nagara-class and succeeded by the Agano-class. Building ordered under the 1920 Fiscal Year, laid down at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard, on 16 February 1922, launched on 30 October 1923, commissioned on 29 April 1924, heavily damaged by American cruisers USS Cleveland, Columbia, Montpelier and Denver in the Battle of Empress Augusta, near the island Bougainville [Territory of New Guinea] in the Java Sea on 2 November 1943, sunk on 3 November 1943 and stricken on 5 January 1944.
With a standard displacement of 5.278 tons and as dimensions 152,4 x 14,2 x 4,9 metres or 500’x 46’7” x 16’1’. The machinery consisted of Parsons geared turbines and 10 Kampon boilers supplying via 4 shafts 90.000 shp allowing a speed of 35,3 knots. With a speed of 14 knots was her range 5.000 nautical miles. Crew numbered 452 men. Armour consisted of a 6,4cm/2.5” thick belt and 2,9cm/1.1” thick deck. The armament consisted of 7x1-14cm/5.5” guns, 2-8cm/3” anti aircraft guns, 4x2-61cm/24” torpedo tubes and she could carry 48 mines with her. Fitted out with a catapult she could carry with her.
