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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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.