Pacific ships

IJN · CA

Sunk

Heavy cruiser. Opened the gun action against Edsall. One of Edsall's torpedoes narrowly missed her. She picked up a handful of survivors.

TypeHeavy cruiser (CA)
FateSunk. 25 October 1944 off Samar.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

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Command

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941-12-07 · screen; not hit

Battle of Wake Island

1941-12-11 · covered the second landing

The loss of Edsall

1942-03-01 · opened fire; a torpedo from Edsall narrowly missed

Battle of Midway

1942-06-04 · screened the carriers; not sunk

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

1942-10-26 · Hornet SBDs hit her about 1040. ONI counts four 1,000-pound hits, USSBS three. Heavy damage, port engine out. Not sunk

Battle of the Sibuyan Sea

1944-10-24 · with the force; not sunk

Battle off Samar

1944-10-25 · disabled and lost that day; not pinned to one ship

Shot and shell

fired · gunUSS Edsall
Part of the surface force that fired more than 1,300 shells. Only one or two hits are credited before the air strike.
Taken · missedfrom USS Edsall
Nix fired Edsall's torpedoes. One narrowly missed Chikuma.
Taken · sunkfrom American carrier aircraft
Chikuma was disabled off Samar and lost that day. The usual account is an aircraft torpedo. Not pinned to one ship. Nowaki stood by her and was sunk the next day.
Taken · damagedfrom Hornet second-wave dive bombers
At 1040 nine SBDs of the second Hornet wave, under Lieutenant Lynch, dived on a Tone-class cruiser. ONI counts four certain and one probable 1,000-pound hits and a heavy explosion as they left. The USSBS table says three bomb hits on the main battery control post and torpedo tubes, heavy damage forward, and the port engine out. Wikipedia says two bombs.