Name This AE...196

[Brady]

???

[John 3rd]

Jintsu?

[Midnight19D]

Kinu?

[DivePac88]

Its Natori, at Brunei maybe.

[wdolson]

Where ever it is, it's a good sized port.  There are rail lines on the dock.  I would say it's somewhere in the Home Islands.

Bill

[mikemike]

It's Sendai, Naka, or Jintsu; you can just see that the foremost funnel is higher than the others, and that combined with the size of the bridge structure is characteristic for that class.

[Local Yokel]

I don't think this is a Naka class CL.  If it were, I would expect to see some sign of the cutter + davits immediately abaft of the port gun mount.
 
Moreover, note the spoon-shaped bow.  Sendai had one, but she was only Naka that did, so far as I know.  All the Nagaras had spoon-shaped bows until Abukuma's 1930 collision, when she received one similar in shape to that of Naka and Jintsu.
 
So I think this is more likely to be a Nagara class CL.  Could well be Natori.  To be different, I'll guess this is Yura.
 
The skyline suggests to me that this is Yokosuka, looking south from a point just north of the principal dry docks.

[borner]

what are the row of crane-looking things running along the side amidships?

[Mynok]

Torpedo loaders? Did Japanese CL really only have one turret in the bow?

[vettim89]

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

I don't think this is a Naka class CL.  If it were, I would expect to see some sign of the cutter + davits immediately abaft of the port gun mount.

Moreover, note the spoon-shaped bow.  Sendai had one, but she was only Naka that did, so far as I know.  All the Nagaras had spoon-shaped bows until Abukuma's 1930 collision, when she received one similar in shape to that of Naka and Jintsu.

So I think this is more likely to be a Nagara class CL.  Could well be Natori.  To be different, I'll guess this is Yura.

The skyline suggests to me that this is Yokosuka, looking south from a point just north of the principal dry docks.

And unless its a bad angle I count three funnels not four. Naka's had four funnels. But which one???

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Torpedo loaders? Did Japanese CL really only have one turret in the bow?

She has 2 turrets back-to-back on the Foredeck, but B turret is in the shadow.

And unless its a bad angle I count three funnels not four. Naka's had four funnels. But which one???

ORIGINAL: vettim89

Reason I think it is Natori is because of the placement of the search-light directors on the bridge structure, which is different than her sisters.

[wdolson]

Here is the entire Nagara class: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/nagara-cl-schem.htm

The ship has the opening in the railing just forward of the stacks that the Natori, Yura, and Kinu had.  It's pre-war or early war, there is no radar on the forward mast.

Bill

[Brady]

Natori, it is[:)]
 
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3rd Febuary 1943, Image source offers up no location info.