Katori 級 輕巡洋艦

Katori 級輕巡洋艦

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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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Katori 級輕巡洋艦 Operational Timeline

1938年8月24日	The keel of Cruiser No. 72 was laid down by Mitsubishi Yokohama shipyards in Japan.
1939年3月31日	Cruiser No. 72, under construction at Mitsubishi Yokohama shipyards in Japan, was officially named Katori.
1939年6月17日	Katori was launched at Mitsubishi Yokohama shipyards in Japan.
1939年7月1日	Captain Shutoku Miyazato was made the chief equipping officer of Katori.
1939年9月25日	Captain Shutoku Miyazato was made the chief equipping officer of both Katori and Kashima.
1939年11月1日	Captain Hisashi Ichioka was made the chief equipping officer of Katori and Kashima, relieving Shutoku Miyazato.
1940年4月20日	Katori was commissioned into service and was attached to the Yokosuka Naval District as a special service vessel. Captain Hisashi Ichioka, previously the Chief Equipping Officer, was named her first commanding officer.
1940年7月28日	Katori and Kashima began the last Japanese Navy midshipmen cruise before the Pacific War. They would make port calls at Etajima and Mutsu in Japan, and Dalian and Shanghai in China.
1940年10月15日	Captain Hisashi Mito was made the commanding officer of Katori, relieving Hisashi Ichioka.
1940年11月15日	Katori was made the flagship of Vice Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu of Japanese Sixth Fleet.
1941年1月6日	Captain Noboru Owada was made the commanding officer of Katori, relieving Hisashi Mito.
1941年7月15日	Kashii was commissioned into service.
1941年11月11日	At Yokosuka, Japan, Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu held a briefing for Japanese Sixth Fleet officers aboard Katori on the Pearl Harbor raid.
1941年11月24日	Katori departed Yokosuka, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands.
1941年11月28日	Katori observed an American convoy of five transports escorted by a Brooklyn-class cruiser 160 miles east of Saipan, Mariana Islands at about 1700 hours.
1941年12月1日	Katori arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
1941年12月2日	Katori departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1941年12月5日	Katori arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年1月3日	While at Truk, Caroline Islands, Katori, flagship of the Japanese Sixth Fleet, hosted a briefing by fleet commanding officer Vice Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu on the invasion of Rabaul, New Britain and Kavieng, New Ireland.
1942年2月1日	The United States launched its first air offensive against the Marshall Islands as SBD and TBD aircraft from carriers USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise struck Japanese bases in the island group. Cruisers USS Northampton, USS Chester, and USS Salt Lake City also bombarded atolls in the Marshall Islands, sinking gunboat Toyotsu Maru and transport Bordeaux Maru and damaging cruiser Katori, submarine I-23, submarine depot ship Yasukuni Maru, minelayer Tokiwa, and several others. Vice Admiral Mitsumi Shimizu was wounded aboard Katori. USS Chester sustained damage from a Japanese dive bomber during the attack; 8 were killed, 21 were wounded.
1942年2月9日	Katori departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands for Yokosuka, Japan.
1942年2月16日	Katori arrived at Yokosuka, Japan.
1942年2月21日	Katori entered the drydocks at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan for repairs.
1942年3月5日	Katori exited the drydocks at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan.
1942年3月18日	Katori departed Yokosuka, Japan.
1942年3月20日	Katori arrived at Kure, Japan.
1942年3月23日	Katori arrived at the fleet anchorage east of Iseko Jima in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, near Hashirajima. Vice Admiral Marquis Teruhisa Komatsu, the new commanding officer of Japanese Sixth Fleet as of 16 Mar 1942, disembarked from Katori to attend a meeting with Isoroku Yamamoto aboard battleship Yamato.
1942年4月16日	Later in the day, after Vice Admiral Marquis Teruhisa Komatsu returned from his meeting with Isoroku Yamamoto, Katori departed Hiroshima Bay for Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年4月20日	Katori arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年4月30日	Katori departed Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年5月3日	Katori arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年5月4日	Katori arrived at Roi, Marshall Islands.
1942年5月6日	Katori departed Roi, Marshall Islands.
1942年5月7日	Katori arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年7月1日	Captain Nobuki Nakaoka was made the commanding officer of Katori, relieving Noboru Owada, at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年8月1日	Katori departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1942年8月8日	Katori arrived at Yokosuka, Japan and was drydocked at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.
1942年8月17日	Katori exited the drydocks at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan.
1942年8月18日	Katori departed Yokosuka, Japan.
1942年8月24日	Katori arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年9月8日	Katori's floatplane was transferred ashore to Truk, Caroline Islands.
1942年11月28日	Captain Takeji Miyazaki was made the commanding officer of Katori while at Truk, Caroline Islands, relieving Nobuki Nakaoka.
1943年3月21日	Katori departed Truk, Caroline Islands.
1943年3月26日	Katori arrived at Yokosuka, Japan.
1943年3月27日	Katori arrived at Yokosuka, Japan.
1943年4月16日	Katori entered the drydocks at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan for a scheduled refit.
1943年4月30日	Katori exited the drydocks at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan after completing a scheduled refit.
1943年5月5日	Katori departed Yokosuka, Japan.
1943年5月11日	Katori arrived Truk, Caroline Islands.
1943年5月11日	Katori arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
1943年6月21日	Katori was made the flagship of Vice Admiral Takeo Takagi, the new commanding officer of the Japanese Sixth Fleet.
1943年7月20日	Captain Hyoe Minakuchi was made the commanding officer of Katori, relieving Takeji Miyazaki.
1943年10月15日	Captain Tamekiyo Oda was made the commanding officer of Katori, relieving Hyoe Minakuchi.
1944年2月15日	Katori was assigned to the General Escort Command.
1944年2月19日	Armed merchant cruiser Akagi Maru, cruiser Katori, destroyer Maikaze, destroyer Nowaki, and minesweeping trawler Shonan Maru No. 15 departed Truk, Caroline Islands at 0430 hours for Yokosuka, Japan. After 0500 hours, Truk came under attack by many US carrier aircraft. A number of aircraft spotted the group and attacked, sinking Akagi Maru and damaging Katori and Maikaze; at least one US F6F fighter was shot down during the attack on this group. Battleship New Jersey, battleship Iowa, cruiser Minneapolos, cruiser New Orleans, destroyer Bradford, and destroyer Burns then approached at about 1300 hours about 64 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of Truk. Maikaze fired a spread of torpedoes, which missed the two battleships. Gunfire from Minneapolis and New Orleans started a fire on Maikaze, causing an explosion, and leading to her sinking at 1343 hours; all aboard were lost. Then, New Jersey sank Shonan Maru No. 15 with her port side 5-inch battery. Next, Iowa opened fire on Katori, straddling Katori with the first salvo. Katori fired torpedoes, but all of them missed. Iowa's gunfire eventually overwhelmed and sank Katori; Captain Tamekiyo Oda was among those killed. Nowaki alone escaped the attack.
1944年3月31日	Katori was stricken from the Japanese Navy list.
1944年7月21日	Kashii arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands.
1945年1月12日	Kashii, sailing in convoy off Indochina, was sunk by American SB2C Helldiver dive bombers and TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. Only 19 out of her complement of 640 survived.
1947年1月1日	Kashima was decommissioned from service.

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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. LRDG says:
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.

2. LRDG says:
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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