NAME

BUILDER

LAUNCHED

COMPLETED

LENGTH
(feet/inch)

BEAM
(feet/inch)

DRAFT
(feet/inch)

CHOKAI
 

Mitsubishi, Nagasaki

5 April 1931

30 June 1932

DISPLACEMENT

ARMAMENT

COMPLEMENT

SHAFT
HORSEPOWER

SPEED
(knots)

FUEL
(tons)

RANGE
(NM)

2 catapults
 

NOTES

TAKAO was heavily damaged by US submarine DARTER on 23 October 1944, in Palawan Passage, enroute to the Battle Off Samar. She was dispatched for the return trip to Borneo with two destroyers.

ATAGO was sunk by US submarine DARTER on 23 October 1944, in Palawan Passage, enroute to the Battle Off Samar.

MAYA was sunk by US submarine DACE on 23 October 1944, in Palawan Passage, enroute to the Battle Off Samar.

CHOKAI was torpedoed on 25 October 1944 during the Battle Off Samar by TU 77.4.3 DE ROBERTS and later heavily damaged by aircraft of the TU. Scuttled same day by HIJMS FUJINAMI.

PHOTOGRAPHS

HIJMS CHOKAI

• CHOKAI firing her 8" guns, 1933
• CHOKAI in about 1938
• CHOKAI in Ariake Bay, April 1939
• CHOKAI underway, 1939