Kapal penjelajah Jepang Sendai

Sendai (川内 軽巡洋艦code: ja is deprecated , Sendai keijun'yōkan) (川内 軽巡洋艦, Sendai keijun'yōkan) was a cruiser kelas-Sendai light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Dia dinamai dari Sungai Sendai (di selatan Kyūshū). Sendai merupakan kapal pemimpin dari kelasnya. Seperti saudarinya, dia awalnya ditujukan untuk mejadi kapal bendera untuk armada destroyer kecil.

Pembangunan

Sendai was completed at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyards on 29 April 1924. Immediately on completion, she was assigned to Yangtze River patrol in China. She played an important role in the Battle of Shanghai in the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and later covered the landings of Japanese forces in southern China.

Referensi

Buku

• Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X. 
• D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X. 
• Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1. 
• Evans, David (1979). Kaigun : Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7. 
• Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8. 
• Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. 
• Lacroix, Eric; Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. 
• Whitley, M.J. (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-141-6. 

Pranala luar

• Parshall, Jon; Bob Hackett; Sander Kingsepp; Allyn Nevitt. "Sendai-class Light Cruiser". Imperial Japanese Navy Page. Diakses tanggal 2016-07-23. 
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