Sendai-class cruiser

Sendai, note the wider third funnel
Class overview
Name:	Sendai class
Builders:	Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard Kōbe-Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard Yokohama Dock Company Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Operators:	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by:	Nagara class
Succeeded by:	Agano class
Built:	1922-1925
In commission:	1924-1944
Planned:	8
Completed:	3
Cancelled:	5
Lost:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Light cruiser
Displacement:	5,195 long tons (5,278 t) (standard) 5,595 long tons (5,685 t) (full load)
Length:	158.53 m (520 ft 1 in) (waterline) 162.15 m (532 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam:	14.17 m (46 ft 6 in)
Draft:	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Depth:	8.85 m (29 ft 0 in)
Installed power:	90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × geared steam turbines (Brown-Curtiss in Jintsū, Parsons in Sendai and Naka) 12 × Kampon boilers (8 x oil-fed and 4 x coal-fed) (initial powerplant); 10 × Kampon oil-fed boilers (after 1934) 4 × shafts
Speed:	35.25 kn (65.28 km/h; 40.56 mph)
Range:	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	440
Armament:	Sendai, 1924: 7 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns 2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun (anti-aircraft guns) 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4x2) 16 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedoes 56 × naval mines Naka, Spring 1941: 7 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns 4 × 25 mm (0.98 in) anti-aircraft (2x2) 2 × 13 mm (0.51 in) anti-aircraft machine guns (2x1) 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2x4) 16 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedoes some depth charges Naka, March 1943: 6 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns 2 × 127 mm (5.0 in) dual purpose guns (1x2) 10 × 25 mm (0.98 in) AAGs (2x3, 2x2) 2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns (1x2) 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (2x4) 16 × 610 mm (24 in) Type 93 torpedoes some depth charges
Armor:	Deck: 2.9 cm (1.1 in) Belt: 6.4 cm (2.5 in)
Aircraft carried:	1 × wheeled fighter 1 × floatplane (1933)
Aviation facilities:	1 × flying-off platform 1 × catapult (1933)

The Sendai-class cruisers (川内型軽巡洋艦, Sendai-gata keijun'yōkan^?) were a group of warships operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The vessels in the class were named after rivers according to the navy's light cruiser naming rule. They participated in numerous actions during the Pacific War and were mainly used as destroyer flotilla leaders.

The Sendai-class light cruisers were a development of the preceding Nagara class. Their boilers were better located, and they had four funnels instead of three. Each ship was designed with a flying-off platform and hangar, but did not actually carry aircraft until a catapult system was installed in 1929.

Three Sendai-class light cruisers were constructed in Japan during the 1920s; four were laid down, but the last — Kako — was scrapped on the slipway in accordance with the regulations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. The other three were sunk during World War II.