Japanese cruiser Sendai

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History
Empire of Japan
Name	Sendai
Namesake	Sendai River
Ordered	1920 Fiscal Year
Builder	Mitsubishi
Laid down	16 February 1922
Launched	30 October 1923
Commissioned	29 April 1924[1]
Stricken	5 January 1944
Fate	Sunk 3 November 1943 by United States Navy cruisers at Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, Solomon Sea 06°10′S 154°20′E / 6.167°S 154.333°E / -6.167; 154.333.
General characteristics
Class and type	Sendai-class light cruiser
Displacement	5,195 long tons (5,278 t) (standard)
Length	152.4 m (500 ft 0 in)
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Installed power	90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Parsons geared turbines 10 × Kampon boilers 4 × shafts
Speed	35.3 kn (65.4 km/h; 40.6 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,000 km; 6,000 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	452
Armament	7 × 140 mm (5.5 in)/50 guns (7x1) 2 × 80 mm (3 in)/40 anti-aircraft guns 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2x2) 48 × mines
Armor	Armor Belt: 64 mm (2.5 in) Deck: 29 mm (1.1 in)
Aircraft carried	1 × floatplane
Aviation facilities	1 × catapult

Sendai (川内 軽巡洋艦, Sendai keijun'yōkan) was a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the Sendai River in southern Kyūshū. Sendai was the lead ship of the three vessels completed in her class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla.