51 officers, 649 sailors; 57 and 669 when serving as a flagship
Sensors and processing systems
Type 93 Model 2 hydrophone
Type 93 Model 3 sonar
Armament
3 × twin 15 cm (6 in) guns
2 × twin 8 cm (3 in) AA guns
2 × triple 2.5 cm (1 in) AA guns
2 × twin 13.2 mm (0.5 in) AA MGs
2 × quadruple 61 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes
2 × depth charge chutes, 18 depth charges
3 × mines
Armor
Belt 60 mm (2.4 in)
Deck 20 mm (0.8 in)
Aircraft carried
2 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities
1 × aircraft catapult
Agano (阿賀野) was the lead ship of her class of four light cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Completed in 1942, she escorted a troop convoy to New Guinea in December. In early 1943 the ship participated in Operation Ke, the evacuation of Japanese troops from Guadalcanal. Six months later Agano transported troops and supplies to New Guinea and she played a role in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in early November where she damaged the destroyer USS Spence. A few weeks later, the ship was badly damaged by American airstrikes and she sailed for Truk under her own power the following day. While en route, Agano was torpedoed by an American submarine and had to be towed to her destination. After several months of repairs, she left for Japan, but was intercepted and sunk by another American submarine in February 1944. Most of her crew was rescued by her escorting destroyer, but that ship was sunk with the loss of most of her crew and all of Agano's survivors by an American airstrike the following day.
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