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Naka

Class	Sendai class
Type	Light cruiser (CL)
Fate	Sunk. Not sunk in the Java Sea. Carrier aircraft sank her at Truk on 17 February 1944. About 240 of her crew were lost.
Armament (class)	5,500-ton light cruiser. Four funnels.
Command	Tawara, Yoshioki Captain from 11 August 1941; Relieved on 10 July 1942; Rear Admiral Shoji Nishimura flew his flag in her. He was not her captain

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.

Naka was a Sendai-class light cruiser. Captain Yoshioki Tawara had her from 11 August 1941 until 10 July 1942. In the Java Sea, Rear Admiral Shoji Nishimura flew his flag in her as commander of Destroyer Squadron 4. Nishimura was not her captain.

On the afternoon of 27 February 1942 she led that flotilla. At about 1603, by the Japanese log, she and her destroyers fired 43 torpedoes at the Allied column. Many of them ran only a few thousand yards. None hit. Naka was not sunk.

Tawara left her on 10 July 1942 and went to Nagara. Naka stayed in service. Carrier aircraft sank her at Truk on 17 February 1944. About 240 of her crew were lost. The sinking is not credited to one ship.

The pictures on this page are the originals.