Box art Kitakami (Kaiten) |
DBTyp | Model | |
Base type | Kuma Class | |
Kit manufacturer | Aoshima | (Aoshima:) Aoshima Website |
Material | plastic | |
Origin country | Japan | Parent category: Asia |
Operator country | Japan | Parent category: Asia |
Build era | 0 (not yet built) | |
Topics | Cruiser Submarine | (Ship:) http://uboat.net/allies/ (Ship:) Navies: To the list of all ship classes Parent category: Ship |
Aera of use | Interwar WW2 | (WW2:) second world war |
Scale | 1/700 | |
TextEN | Kaiten-Version Ordered in 1917 to the Sasebo Naval Arsenal and completed in April 1921 as the 4th vessel of the Harima-class cruisers, Kitakami was converted into a torpedo cruiser. She subsequently participated in the Battle of Midway as part of the Aleutian screening force. She was later used as a fast transport and made numerous sorties to Rabaul and other locations in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. After taking severe damage in a torpedo attack by the submarine HMS Templar on 27 January 1944, she was converted to a Kaiten human torpedo carrier. She survived the war, and was used as a tender for repatriation vessels after the war. | |
BaseVehicle | Ship | |
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Model Kiso | ||
Model Kitakami (Kaiten, old resin) | ||
Model Kitakami (Torpedo) | ||
Model Oi Torpedokreuzer 1943 |