Japanese cruiser Naka
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Naka (那珂) was a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), named after the Naka River in the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures of eastern Japan. Naka was the third (and final) vessel completed in the Sendai class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla.
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Naka in 1925, at Yokohama prior to commissioning | |
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Name | Naka |
Namesake | Naka River |
Ordered | 1920 Fiscal Year |
Builder | Mitsubishi |
Laid down | 10 June 1922 |
Launched | 24 March 1925 |
Commissioned | 30 November 1925[1] |
Stricken | 31 March 1944 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sendai-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 5,195 long tons (5,278 t) (standard) |
Length | 152.4 m (500 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
Installed power | 90,000 shp (67,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35.3 kn (65.4 km/h; 40.6 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,000 km; 6,000 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 452 |
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Armor | |
Aircraft carried | 1 × floatplane |
Aviation facilities | 1 × catapult |
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