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Haguro

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ClassMyoko class
TypeHeavy cruiser (CA)
BuilderMitsubishi, Nagasaki
Launched1928-03-24
Commissioned1929-04-25
FateSunk. With Myoko and the carriers at Coral Sea, and not sunk there. Damaged at Empress Augusta Bay on 2 November 1943, and not sunk there. In Kurita's cruiser line off Samar, and not sunk that day. On 16 May 1945 the British 26th Destroyer Flotilla sank her in the Malacca Strait. Saumarez, Verulam, Vigilant, and Venus. Not credited to one of them.
Armament (class)Five twin 8-inch turrets and two funnels.
Command

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

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Haguro
Haguro-1942.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The name is Mount Haguro, in Yamagata. Haguro was a Myoko-class heavy cruiser. Mitsubishi at Nagasaki laid her down on 16 March 1925, launched her on 24 March 1928, and commissioned her on 25 April 1929.

On 27 February 1942 she was with Nachi in the Java Sea. Rear Admiral Takeo Takagi's flag was in Nachi. Japanese records credit Haguro with the 8-inch shell that hit Exeter, with the torpedo that sank Kortenaer, and with the torpedo that sank De Ruyter. One English-language account gives the Exeter shell to Nachi, and the Allied accounts do not name which cruiser fired which torpedo. Haguro was not sunk.

Haguro was with Myoko at the Coral Sea, screening Shokaku and Zuikaku. She was not sunk there.

On the night of 1–2 November 1943 she was with Myoko again, off Empress Augusta Bay. Rear Admiral Sentaro Omori's flag was in Myoko. Captain Jisaku Uozumi had Haguro. Myoko collided with Hatsukaze and cut the destroyer's bow off. American destroyers finished Hatsukaze. That sinking is not credited to one of them. Haguro was damaged and was not sunk. The American ships hit that night are not credited to her alone.

On 25 October 1944 she was in Kurita's cruiser line off Samar, with Chokai. She fired in that fight and came out. The American ships lost that morning are not credited to her alone.

On 16 May 1945, in the Malacca Strait, British destroyers of the 26th Destroyer Flotilla caught her. Saumarez, Verulam, Vigilant, and Venus sank her. The loss is not credited to one of them.

The pictures on this page are the originals.