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NoneSucceeded by:
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| Class | Sendai |
| Type | Light Cruiser |
| Year | 1924 |
| Crew | 450 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 152.4 m (pp) 158.5 m |
| Beam | 14.2 m |
| Draught | 4.9 m |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 5,195 t |
| Loaded | 5,595 t |
| Maximum | 7,100 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 65 km/h |
| Range | 11,112 km @ 28 km/h |
| Machinery | |
| Shafts | 4 |
| Turbines | 4 x Geared steam 9,000 hp Parsons/Brown-Curtis |
| Boilers | 12 x Kampon |
| Fuel | Oil: 1,010 t |
| Armament | |
| Main | 7 x 140-mm/50 (7 x 1) 14cm/50 Type 3 -7° / +20° |
| Anti-Aircraft | 2 x 76-mm (2 x 1) 8cm/40 Type 41 2 x 7-mm (2 x 1) 6.5cm/115 Type 3 2 x 127-mm (2 x 1) 12.7cm/40 Type 89 [1943] 6 x 13-mm (6 x 1) 13mm/76 Type 93 [1943] 44 x 25-mm 25mm/60 Type 96 [1943] |
| Broadside | 266 kg |
| Armor | |
| Belt | 64 mm |
| Deck | 28 mm |
| Sensors | |
| Radar | Type 21 |
| Production | |
| Built | 3 |
| Total | 3 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
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Naka † | Mitsubishi | 10/06/1922 | 24/03/1925 | 30/11/1925 | 17/02/1944 | † | Loss by aircraft | |
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Sendai † | Mitsubishi | 16/02/1922 | 30/10/1923 | 29/04/1924 | 02/11/1943 | † | Loss by surface ship | |
|
Jintsu † | Kawasaki | 04/08/1922 | 08/12/1923 | 31/07/1925 | 13/07/1943 | † | Loss by surface ship | |
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Kako | Sasebo K K | 05/02/1922 | - | - | - | Cancelled |