![]() Kinu in 1931
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Name | Kinu |
Namesake | Kinu River |
Ordered | 1920 Fiscal Year (1918 "8-6 Fleet" Plan) |
Builder | Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe |
Laid down | 17 January 1921 |
Launched | 29 May 1922 |
Commissioned | 10 November 1922[1] |
Stricken | 20 December 1944 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Nagara-class cruiser |
Displacement |
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Length | 534 ft 9 in (162.99 m) |
Beam | 48 ft 5 in (14.76 m) |
Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
Range | 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 438 |
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Armor | |
Aircraft carried | 1 x floatplane |
Aviation facilities | 1x aircraft catapult |
Kinu (鬼怒) was the fifth of the six ships completed Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Kinu River in Tochigi prefecture Japan. She was active in World War II in various campaigns in Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea before being sunk by United States Navy carrier-based aircraft in the Philippines in 1944.
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