IJN Myōkō

Scuttled

Type	Heavy cruiser
Class	Myōkō
War	Second World War
Main guns	10 × 203 mm (8.0 in) guns (5×2)

Helped sink Exeter and Encounter. Escorted the carriers at the Coral Sea. Damaged at Leyte Gulf and survived the war at Singapore.

CAPTAIN POWER VISITS DAMAGED JAPANESE CRUISER MYOKO. 25 SEPTEMBER 1945, SINGAPORE. IN MAY 1944, FIVE SHIPS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH DESTROYER FLOTILLA ATTACHED TO THE BRITISH EAST INDIES FLEET, LED BY HMS SAUMAREZ, WITH CAPTAIN M L POWER, CBE, OBE, DSO AND BAR, AS CAPTAIN (D), SANK THE JAPANESE CRUISER H Photo: Trusler, C (Lt), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

10 × 203 mm (8.0 in) guns (5×2)
6 × 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun guns (to 1934) or 8 × 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval guns (from 1935)
2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns
12 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes

Armour

Main belt: 100 mm (3.9 in)
Main deck: 37 mm (1.5 in)
Turrets: 25 mm (0.98 in)
Barbettes: 75 mm (3.0 in)

Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down	25 October 1924
Launched	16 April 1927
Commissioned	31 July 1929
Displacement	13,500 t (13,300 long tons)
Length	201.7 m (661 ft 9 in)
Speed	36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Complement	773

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

16 April 1927

Second Battle of the Java Sea

Survived

1 March 1942

Battle of the Coral Sea

Survived

4–8 May 1942

Takagi's flagship

Fate

Scuttled

Scuttled in the Strait of Malacca, 8 July 1946

3°5′N 100°40′E / 3.083°N 100.667°E / 3.083; 100.667