hellfirejet
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Japanese Furutaka class cruiser completed
Namesake: Mount Furutaka, located on Etajima, Hiroshima,immediately behind the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy Ordered: 1923 Fiscal Year Builder: Mitsubishi shipyards, Nagasaki Laid down: 5 December 1922 Launched: 25 February 1925 Commissioned: 31 March 1926[1] Struck: 20 December 1944 Fate: sunk 12 October 1942 by USS Salt Lake City and USS Duncan at the Battle of Cape Esperance 02‹28ŒS 152‹11ŒE / 2.467‹S 152.183‹E / -2.467; 152.183 General characteristics Class and type: Furutaka class heavy cruiser Displacement: 7,950 tons (standard); 9,150 tons (after modification) Length: 176.8 meters Beam: 15.8 meters Draught: 5.6 meters Propulsion: 4-shaft Parsons geared turbines 12 Kampon boilers 102,000 shp Speed: 34.5 knots (64 km/h) Range: 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) Complement: 616 Armament: (initial) 6 ~ 7.9in (200mm)/50-cal guns (6x1), 4 ~ 3.1in (76mm)/40-cal (4x1), 12 ~ 24in (610mm) torpedo tubes (6x2) (final) 6 ~ 8in (203mm)/50-cal guns (3x2), 4 ~ 4.7in (120mm)/45-cal (4x1), 8 ~ 24in (610mm) torpedo tubes (2x4) Armor: 76 mm (belt) 36 mm (deck) Aircraft carried: 1 x Nakajima E4N2 floatplane (2 x Kawanishi E7K2 from 1936) Aviation facilities: 1 catapult (from 1933)
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