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Sunday 29 May 2016

Gun arrangement of the Japanese cruiser Turutaka according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1926 no. 5

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that the gun arrangement of the new Japanese cruiser Turutaka consisted of 6x1-20cm gun turrets placed amidships.(1)

Note
1. Of the Furutaka heavy cruisers-class, laid down at the Mitsubishi shipyards, Nagasaki, Japan on 5 December 1922, launched on 25 February 1925, commissioned on 21 March 1926 and sunk by the American USS heavy cruiser Salt Lake City and destroyers Duncan on 12 October 1942 during the Battle of Cape Esperance on 12 October 1942.