Japanese cruiser Isuzu
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For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Isuzu.
Isuzu (五十鈴) was the second of six vessels in the Nagara class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was named after the Isuzu River, near Ise Shrine in the Chūbu region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Battle of Hong Kong and in the Solomon Islands campaign, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf before being sunk by American submarines in the Netherlands East Indies in April 1945.
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Isuzu after modification at Mitsubishi Yokohama in 1944 | |
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Name | Isuzu |
Ordered | 1920 Fiscal Year (1918 "8-6 Fleet" Plan) |
Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
Laid down | 10 August 1920 |
Launched | 29 October 1921 |
Commissioned | 15 August 1923[1] |
Stricken | 20 June 1945 |
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Class and type | Nagara-class cruiser |
Displacement | 5,570 long tons (5,659 t) normal |
Length | |
Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 450 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × floatplane |
Aviation facilities | 1 × aircraft catapult |
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