IJN · CL
AfloatKuma-class light cruiser. Sasebo launched her on 3 July 1920 and completed her on 15 April 1921. Rebuilt in 1941 as a torpedo cruiser with forty tubes, she never fired them in battle. She served as a fast transport, was torpedoed by HMS Templar off Penang in January 1944, and was rebuilt again as a carrier for kaiten suicide torpedoes. She survived the war and was scrapped in 1946–47.
| Class | Kuma class |
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| Type | Light cruiser (CL) |
| Builder | Sasebo Navy Yard |
| Launched | 1920-07-03 |
| Commissioned | 1921-04-15 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war at Kure as a kaiten carrier, damaged by strafing and near misses on 24 July 1945 with 32 killed. Used postwar as a repair ship for the repatriation service. Scrapped at Nagasaki, October 1946 to March 1947. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
Command
SNNorimitsu, SaijiCaptain from 28 November 1941Relieved on 5 September 1942NTTsuruoka, NobumichiCaptain from 5 September 1942Relieved on 17 May 1943TNNomura, TomekichiCaptain from 17 May 1943Relieved on 21 November 1943JTTanaka, JoCaptain from 21 November 1943Relieved on 10 June 1944SKKase, SaburoCaptain from 10 June 1944Relieved on 29 August 1944MSShimizu, MasamotoCaptain from 29 August 1944, as additional dutyRelieved on 1 December 1944KKKanaoka, KunizoCaptain from 1 December 1944Relieved on 15 August 1945
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 · with Takasu's Aleutian screening force and the battleships; saw no action; not sunk
Afloat
Photos and infoThe Doolittle RaidBattle of MidwayLandings on Guadalcanal and TulagiBattle of the Eastern SolomonsBattle of the Santa Cruz IslandsBattle of Rennell IslandGilbert Islands, November 1943Marshall IslandsOperation Hailstone, the raid on TrukBattle of the Philippine SeaBattle off Cape EngañoIwo JimaOkinawa
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