Japanese cruiser Ōi

	Ōi in 1923 at Kure Harbor, Hiroshima
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Ōi
Namesake	Ōi River
Ordered	1917 Fiscal Year
Builder	Kawasaki Shipbuilding, Kobe, Japan
Laid down	24 November 1919
Launched	15 July 1920
Commissioned	10 October 1921
Out of service	19 July 1944
Stricken	10 September 1944
Fate	Torpedoed by USS Flasher 570 nmi (1,060 km; 660 mi) south of Hong Kong, South China Sea at 13°12′N 114°52′E, 19 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Kuma class light cruiser
Displacement	5,100 long tons (5,182 t) (standard)
Length	152.4 m (500 ft 0 in)
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Installed power	90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines; 12 × Kampon boilers; 4 × shafts;
Speed	36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	450
Armament	(as built); 7 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns (7x1); 2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun s; 8 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes (4x2); 48 × mines; (as torpedo cruiser); 4 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns; 6 × Type 96 25-mm AA guns (2 triple); 40 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (10x4);
Armor	Belt: 64 mm (3 in); Deck: 29 mm (1 in);
Aircraft carried	1 × floatplane
Aviation facilities	1 × catapult

Ōi (大井) was the fourth of five Kuma-class light cruiser, which served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was named after the Ōi River in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. Designed as a command vessel for a destroyer squadron, she was converted into a torpedo cruiser with forty torpedo launch tubes in a plan abandoned by the Japanese Navy in 1942. During most of the Pacific War, she was used primarily as a fast troop transport and was sunk by a United States Navy submarine in 1944.

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