Myōkō-class cruiser

Class overview
Name:	Myōkō class
Operators:	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by:	Aoba class
Succeeded by:	Takao class
Built:	1924–1929
In commission:	1928–1946
Completed:	4
Lost:	3
General characteristics [1]
Type:	Heavy cruiser
Displacement:	11,633 tons (standard load) 14,980 tons (full load)
Length:	204 m (669 ft) overall
Beam:	17 m (56 ft)
Draught:	5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion:	4-shaft geared turbines 12 Kampon boilers 130,000 shp
Speed:	35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Range:	8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement:	773
Armament:	10 × 20 cm (7.9 in) guns (5×2) 6 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (6×1) 12 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4×3)
Aircraft carried:	2
Aviation facilities:	1 catapult

The four Myōkō-class cruisers (妙高型巡洋艦, Myōkō-gata jun'yōkan) were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1920s. Three were lost during World War II.

The ships of this class displaced 11,633 tons (standard), were 201 metres (659 ft) long, and were capable of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). They carried two aircraft and their main armament was ten 20.3-centimetre (8 in) guns in five twin turrets. At the time, this was the heaviest armament of any cruiser class in the world. They were also the first cruisers the Japanese Navy constructed that exceeded the (10,000 ton) limit set by the Washington Naval Treaty.

Ships in class

The ships in the class were:

References

Notes

Books

• Whitley, M J (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-225-1. 
• Lacroix, Eric; Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. 

External links

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