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  Kashii 7.1941

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
香取 [Katori]			Mitsubishi, Yokohama	24.8.1938	17.6.1939	20.4.1940	sunk 17.2.1944
鹿島 [Kashima]			Mitsubishi, Yokohama	6.10.1938	25.9.1939	31.5.1940	surrendered 8.1945, stricken 10.1945
香椎 [Kashii]			Mitsubishi, Yokohama	30.5.1940	14.2.1941	5.12.1941	sunk 12.1.1945
橿原 [Kashiwara]			Mitsubishi, Yokohama	23.8.1941	---	---	cancelled 11.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	5890
Displacement full, t	6300
Length, m	123.5 pp 129.8 wl 133.5 oa
Breadth, m	16.6
Draught, m	5.75
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Kampon geared steam turbines, 3 Kampon boilers + 2 Kampon 22-go 10-gata diesels
Power, h. p.	4400 + 3600 = 8000
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	oil 380, diesel oil 160
Endurance, nm(kts)	9900(18)
Armour, mm	turrets: 10
Armament	Katori, Kashima: 2 x 2 - 140/50 3-shiki, 1 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 x 2 - 533 TT, 1 seaplane (F1M2), 1 catapult  Kashii: 2 x 2 - 140/50 3-shiki, 1 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 4 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 x 2 - 533 TT, 1 seaplane (F1M2), 1 catapult
Complement	315 + 275 cadets

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Project history

Ships of this class have been created specially for training. They were built under Supplementary Programmes of 1937 (Katori and Kashima) and 1939 (Kashii). The order for fourth ship, Kashiwara, laid down 23.8.1941, was cancelled in November of the same year, and hull was broken up on slipway. The 1942 program provided building of four more ships under a little advanced project, however these plans remained not realised.

Ship protection

Only 6-10mm local protection was intended for armament, CT and magazines.

Modernizations

8.1942, Katori, Kashima: + 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki

4/1944, Kashii: - 2 x 2 - 533 TT, catapult and seaplane; + 2 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 4 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (300), 1-shiki 2-go radar

1/1945, Kashima: - 2 x 2 - 533 TT, catapult and seaplane; + 2 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 4 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 10 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (100), 2-shiki 2-go radar

Naval service

In days of war they were used basically in a role of command ships.

Katori 1.2.1942 was damaged at Kwajalein by US carrier aircraft. 17.2.1944 she was damaged by US carrier aircraft of TF.38 and later sunk by US cruisers Indianapolis, New Orleans and destroyers Bradford and Burns NW off Truk.

Kashii 12.1.1945 was sunk by US aircraft (Essex, Ticonderoga, Langley and San Jacinto air groups) at coast of Vietnam.

Kashima after end of war was used some time for repatriation and scrapped in 1946-1947.