Light Cruiser Yahagi
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Cruiser
Agano-class light cruiser that sank alongside Yamato during Operation Ten-Go on April 7, 1945.
Class / type
阿賀野型
Displacement
6,652 Tons
Complement
726
Launched
25 October 1942
Commissioned / formed
29 December 1943
Lost / disbanded
7 April 1945
- Armament
- 15.2cm砲6門、魚雷8門
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack
History
Agano-class light cruiser that sank alongside Yamato during Operation Ten-Go on April 7, 1945.
Related sites (2)
- Built33.157, 129.715
Built at Sasebo Naval Arsenal (laid down 11 November 1941)
- Sunk30.783, 128.133
East China Sea, southwest of Kyushu (approx. 30°47′N 128°08′E) — sunk by US carrier aircraft at 14:05 on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, shortly before Yamato; 445 lost