Light Cruiser Oyodo
Open the military map軽巡洋艦大淀
Cruiser
Last flagship of the Combined Fleet. Sunk at Kure during Allied air raids. Designed as a submarine fleet command ship.
Class / type
大淀型
Displacement
8,164 Tons
Complement
782
Launched
2 April 1942
Commissioned / formed
28 February 1943
Lost / disbanded
28 July 1945
- Armament
- 15.5cm砲6門、10cm高角砲8門
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack
History
Last flagship of the Combined Fleet. Sunk at Kure during Allied air raids. Designed as a submarine fleet command ship.
Related sites (2)
- Built34.231, 132.565
Built at Kure Naval Arsenal (laid down 14 February 1941, launched 2 April 1942)
- Sunk34.225, 132.455
Etajima, across the bay from Kure — moored off the island as a floating battery, bombed on 24 July 1945 and capsized in shallow water after near misses on 28 July 1945 (about 300 killed); raised in 1947 and scrapped at Kure in 1948