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 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Japan on 10 August 1918, launched on 14 December 1920, commissioned on 4 May 1921, sunk in an attack by American carrier planes in Minala Bay on 13 November 1944, stricken on 20 December 1944, salvaged on 15 December 1955 and broken up.
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