Japanese cruiser Maya
Maya
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Maya |
| Namesake: | Mount Maya |
| Ordered: | FY 1927 |
| Builder: | Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe |
| Laid down: | 4 December 1928 |
| Launched: | 8 November 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 20 June 1932 |
| Struck: | 20 December 1944 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk by USS Dace, 23 October 1944 |
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| Class and type: | Takao-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 9,850 t (9,690 long tons) (standard), 15,490 t (15,250 long tons) (full load) |
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| Beam: | 19 m (62 ft) – 20.4 m (67 ft) |
| Draft: | 6.11 m (20.0 ft) – 6.32 m (20.7 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4-shaft geared turbine, 12 Kampon boilers, 132,000 shp (98,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 35.5 kn (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph) |
| Range: | 8,500 nautical miles (15,740 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 921–996 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 3x floatplanes (1x Aichi E13A1 "Jake" & 2x F1M2 "Pete") |
| Aviation facilities: | 2 aircraft catapults |
Maya (摩耶?) was one of four Takao-class heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). These were the largest and most modern cruisers in the Japanese fleet, and were intended to form the backbone of a multipurpose long-range strike force. These ships were fast, powerful and heavily armed, with enough firepower to hold their own against any cruiser in any other navy in the world. Her sister ships were Takao, Atago and Chōkai.
The Takao-class ships were approved under the 1927 to 1931 supplementary fiscal year budget, and were named after a mountain. Mount Maya is located outside Kobe.
The Takao-class cruisers were an improved version of the previous Myōkō-class design, incorporating technical elements learned with the development of the experimental light cruiser Yūbari. They had a distinctive profile with a large, raked main smokestack, and a smaller, straight, second smokestack. Intended to address issues with the Myōkō class, the Takao class had thicker armor, dual-purpose main guns which could be used against aircraft, and torpedo launchers moved to the upper deck for greater safety. However, as with its predecessors, the Takao class was also top-heavy.
The Takao class displaced 16,875 t (16,608 long tons). Maya was 203.8 metres (669 ft) long, with a beam of 20.4 metres (67 ft), draft of 6.32 metres (20.7 ft) and was capable of 35.25 knots.
Propulsion was by 12 Kampon boilers driving four sets of single-impulse geared turbine engines, with four shafts turning three-bladed propellers. The ship was armored with a 127 mm (5.0 in) side belt, and 35 mm (1.4 in) armored deck;, the bridge was armored with 10 to 16 mm (0.39 to 0.63 in) armored plates.
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