For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Ashigara.
Heavy cruiser Ashigara photographed visiting a port in Germany, 1937
History
Empire of Japan
Name
Ashigara
Namesake
Mount Ashigara
Ordered
1924
Builder
Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe, Japan
Laid down
11 April 1925
Launched
22 April 1928
Commissioned
20 August 1929
Fate
Sunk by HMS Trenchant in Bangka Strait, 8 June 1945
General characteristics
Class and type
Myōkō-class cruiser
Displacement
13,000 long tons (13,209 t) (design)
14,743 long tons (14,980 t) (actual)
Length
203.76 m (668 ft 6 in)
Beam
19 m (62 ft 4 in) (as built)
20.73 m (68 ft 0 in) (final)
Draft
5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) (as built)
6.37 m (20 ft 11 in) (final)
Propulsion
4-shaft geared turbines
12 Kampon boilers
130,000 shp
Speed
35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)(as built)
33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h) (final)
Range
7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement
920–970
Armament
(as built)
10 × 200 mm (7.9 in) guns (5×2)
6 × Type 10 120 mm AA Guns
2 × 7.7 mm (0.30 in) machine guns
12 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
(final)
10 × 203 mm (8.0 in) guns (5×2)
8 × 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval guns
8 × Type 96 25mm AA guns
2 × quadruple 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns
16 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes[1]
Aircraft carried
3
Aviation facilities
1x aircraft catapult
Service record
Part of:
Imperial Japanese Navy
Operations:
Pacific War
Battle of the Philippines (1941–42)
Battle of the Java Sea (1942)
Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)
Ashigara (足柄) was the final vessel of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which were active in World War II.[2] The other ships of the class were Nachi, Myōkō, and Haguro.[3]Ashigara was named after Mount Ashigara on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka Prefectures.
^Lacroix, Japanese Cruisers, p. 808-809.
^Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. page 81
^Nishida, Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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