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The IJN Nachi (那智)
was the name-ship of the 4-member Nachi class of heavy cruiser of
the
Imperial Japanese Navy--the other ships of the class being the
Ashigara (足柄),
Haguro (羽黒),
and the
Myoko (妙高).
The class displaced 13300 tons, was 204 metres long, and
was capable of 36 knots. She carried one aircraft and her main armament was
10 8-inch guns.
The Nachi was laid down on
26 November
1924, launched and named on
15 June
1927, and was commissioned into the Imperial Navy on
26 November
1928. Her service in the
Second World War started in the Dutch East Indies, where she engaged the
enemy off
Makassar on
8 February
1942, played a key role in the sinking of
HMS Exeter and her escort in the
Battle of the Java Sea on
27 February 1942, and was engaged in another action off south
Borneo on
1 March 1942. She then moved to the
Aleutian Islands where she was engaged in the diversionary attack on the
islands on
3 June 1942; she was back in the Aleutians when she was damaged on
26 March
1943 in the
Battle of the Komandorski Islands,
and was engaged in an action at
Kiska in July 1943. By October 1944
she was in the Philippines where she was damaged in the
Battle of Surigao Strait on
25 October
1944, and finally sunk by the
USS Lexington on
5 November 1944.
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