Katori-class Light Cruiser
| Country | Japan |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
This article refers to the entire Katori-class; it is not about an individual vessel.
ww2dbaseThe Katori-class light cruisers were designed as training ships, authorized with the 1937 and 1939 Supplementary Naval budget. All three ships built were moved into combat roles during the Pacific War, with two of them sunk by the end of the war.
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Last Major Revision: Jan 2008
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3 Dec 2013 11:06:55 PM
Katori and Kashii sunk during the War. Kashima survived and later used as a Repat Ship to ferry Japanese troops from Pacific outposts back to Japan. She was decommissioned in 1947 and scrapped.
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Winston Churchill, 1935
3 Dec 2013 11:02:47 PM
Kashima was used as a Repat Ship ferrying Japanese Troops back to Japan after the War and decommissioned in 1947.