Japanese cruiser Kiso

	Japanese cruiser Kiso showing arctic camouflage during the Aleutians Campaign, 1942
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Kiso
Namesake	Kiso River
Ordered	1917 Fiscal Year
Builder	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki
Cost	6,915,078 JPY
Laid down	10 August 1918
Launched	14 December 1920
Commissioned	4 May 1921
Stricken	20 December 1944
Fate	Sunk 13 November 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Kuma-class cruiser
Displacement	5,100 long tons (5,182 t) standard
Length	152.4 m (500 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draught	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	5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	450
Armament	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 mines;
Armor	Belt: 64 mm (3 in); Deck: 29 mm (1 in);
Aircraft carried	1 x floatplane, 1 catapult

Kiso (木曾) was the fifth and last of the five Kuma-class light cruisers, which served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was named after the Kiso River in central Honshū, Japan.

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