![]() ![]() Takao-class side armor was 10.2/12.7 cm thick. Complement was up to 990 officers and men Twelve Kanpon boilers drove four sets of single-flow impulse type geared turbines providing a total 130,000 horsepower turning four shafts with three-bladed propellers. IJN Atago had a mean average draft of 6.57 meters and a standart displacement 11,370 tons. In wartime configuration IJN Atago was 203.8 meters long and had a beam of 19 meters. The cruiser was named after Mount Atago, located in Kyoto Prefecture. ![]() IJN Atago was laid down at the Kure Navy Yard on 28 April 1927. Due to the Japanese practice of trying to do too much with limited displacement, the cruisers of this class were top-heavy. The main guns could be elevated to 70 degrees making them useful against aircraft. Unlike the preceding class, the Takao-class had an upright second funnel which made them easy to identify. The resulting explosion would be directed upward and outward instead of downward into the hull. Torpedo launchers were placed at upper deck level in rotating mounts to hopefully prevent loss of the ship in the event of a hit in the torpedo room. The design was developed by Taisa Fujimoto who had succeeded Shosho Hiraga as head of the Basic Design Section of the Navy Technical Department. The warships of this class were the largest cruisers in the Combined Fleet and were the culmination of the design principle established by Hiraga with the experimental light cruiser IJN Yūbari. Takao-class was an improved version of the Myōko-Class and was distinguished by a massive protected bridge which would have been appropriate for a battleship. ![]() Heavy cruiser Atago, Yokosuka, April 1932 ![]()
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