Japanese cruiser Sendai

History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Sendai
Namesake:	Sendai River
Ordered:	1920 Fiscal Year
Laid down:	16 February 1922
Launched:	30 October 1923
Commissioned:	29 April 1924
Struck:	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) guns (7x1) 2 × 80 mm anti-aircraft guns 4 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4x2) 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.

Sendai was completed at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyards on 29 April 1924. Immediately on completion, she was assigned to Yangtze River patrol in China. She played an important role in the Battle of Shanghai in the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and later covered the landings of Japanese forces in southern China.

On 20 November 1941, Sendai became flagship of Destroyer Squadron 3 (DesRon 3) under Rear Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto.

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sendai was engaged in escorting transports carrying Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the Japanese 25th Army to invade Malaya. At 23:45 on 7 December 1941, Sendai and her destroyer squadron (Ayanami, Isonami, Shikinami, and Uranami) commenced a bombardment of Kota Bharu, Malaya. They were attacked by seven RAAF Hudson bombers, which sank one of the transports and damaged two others.

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