Agano-class Light Cruiser
| Country | Japan |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
This article refers to the entire Agano-class; it is not about an individual vessel.
ww2dbaseThe Agano-class light cruisers were designed as a new generation of about 5,000 ton displacement ships to lead destroyer and submarine squadrons. The armor platings were light having required to protect against 6-inch guns only, and their main armaments were equally light with only six 155-millimeter guns, especially considering that they were designed in the late 1930s. They were only the first Japanese warships to be equipped with bulbous bows. They were each equipped with a single catapult forward of the main mast with carrying capacity of two floatplanes.
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Last Major Revision: Mar 2009
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Agano-class Light Cruiser Operational Timeline
| 5 Nov 1943 | During the US raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Agano was damaged by a near miss, killing one. |
| 5 Nov 1943 | During the US raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Noshiro suffered punctured hull by strafing of dive bombers and a dent in the hull by a torpedo dud hit. |
| 29 Dec 1943 | Yahagi was commissioned into service. |
| 30 Nov 1944 | Sakawa was commissioned into service. |
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