Japanese cruiser Abukuma

	Abukuma in 1941, showing Kawanishi E7K1 "Alf" floatplane on catapult, ready to launch
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Abukuma
Ordered	1920 Fiscal Year (1918 “8-6 Fleet” Plan)
Builder	Uraga Dock Company
Laid down	8 December 1921
Launched	16 March 1923
Commissioned	26 May 1925
Stricken	20 December 1944
Fate	sunk 26 October 1944; bombed by USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers; off Negros Island, Mindanao Sea; 09°20′N 122°32′E;
General characteristics
Class and type	Nagara-class cruiser
Displacement	5,570 long tons (5,659 t) normal
Length	162.1 m (531 ft 10 in) o/a; 158.6 m (520 ft 4 in) w/l;
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	4 shaft Gihon geared turbines; 12 Kampon boilers; 90,000 shp (67,000 kW);
Speed	36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	450
Sensors and ; processing systems	Type 21 air-search radar
Armament	(Initial); 7 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns; 2 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun s; 8 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes (4x2); 48 naval mines; (Final) 5 × 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns; 2 × 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval gun s; 4 × triple, 2x twin,24x single Type 96 25 mm AA guns; 10 × Type 93 13.2 mm machine guns; 8 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes (2x4);
Armor	Belt: 60 mm (2.4 in); Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in);
Aircraft carried	1 x floatplane
Aviation facilities	1x aircraft catapult

Abukuma (阿武隈) was the sixth and last of the Nagara class of light cruisers completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was named after the Abukuma River in the Tōhoku region of Japan. She saw action during World War II in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and in the Pacific, before being disabled in the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, then bombed and sunk by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) off the coast of the Philippines.

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