Japanese cruiser Naka

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Naka in 1925, at Yokohama prior to commissioning
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Naka
Namesake	Naka River
Ordered	1920 Fiscal Year
Builder	Mitsubishi
Laid down	10 June 1922
Launched	24 March 1925
Commissioned	30 November 1925[1]
Stricken	31 March 1944
Fate	sunk 18 February 1944 bombed by USN carrier aircraft near Truk 07°15′N 151°15′E / 7.250°N 151.250°E / 7.250; 151.250.
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)/50 guns (7x1) 2 × 80 mm (3 in)/40 anti-aircraft guns 8 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4x2) 48 × mines
Armor	Belt: 64 mm (2.5 in) Deck: 29 mm (1.1 in)
Aircraft carried	1 × floatplane
Aviation facilities	1 × catapult

Naka (那珂) was a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), named after the Naka River in the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures of eastern Japan. Naka was the third (and final) vessel completed in the Sendai class of light cruisers, and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla.