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Cruiser «Agano»
Agano class light cruiser project (`River running downhill' in the city of Matsusasaki) was developed in the second half of the 1930s. The cruiser, similar to all earlier Japanese ships of this class was designed to serve as squadron leader to groups of destroyers. All four Agano type cruisers were built within the framework of the Fourth Fleet Reinforcement Program of 1939. The first of the series, Agano, was commissioned on October 31, 1942, and the last one, Sakawa, one of the two Japanese cruisers remaining at the end of the war out of 43, in November 1944.
Agano cruisers had 7,710 ton displacement, power plant rated at 100,000 hps, maximum speed: 35 knots. They were armed with 6 x 152 mm guns, 4 x 100 mm anti-aircraft guns, 61 x 25 mm automatic anti-aircraft guns and 2 x 4 x 610 torpedo launchers.
Cruiser Agano in the "Pacific Storm"
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