Heavy Cruiser Mogami
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Cruiser
Mogami-class cruiser, converted to aviation cruiser. Crippled at Surigao Strait and scuttled during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Class / type
最上型
Displacement
11,200 Tons
Complement
850
Launched
14 March 1934
Commissioned / formed
28 July 1935
Lost / disbanded
25 October 1944
- Armament
- 20.3cm砲10門、12.7cm高角砲8門
- Fate
- Scuttled
History
Mogami-class cruiser, converted to aviation cruiser. Crippled at Surigao Strait and scuttled during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Related sites (2)
- Built34.231, 132.565
Built at Kure Naval Arsenal (laid down 27 October 1931, launched 14 March 1934)
- Sunk9.667, 124.833
Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, approx. 9°40′N 124°50′E — crippled in Surigao Strait and by air attack, scuttled by a torpedo from the destroyer Akebono on 25 October 1944