Qualla: Japanese cruiser Sendai https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Japanese cruiser Sendai https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai Japanese cruiser Sendai: Introduction https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai/ The first salvo set her on fire. The second, and the third, and the ones after - four American light cruisers firing radar-directed 6-inch shells into the dark water off Bougainville on the night of 2 November 1943 - did the rest. Sendai burned through the night and sank the following morning near the mouth of Empress Augusta Bay. Captain Shoji went down with her, along with 184 of his crew. She had sailed from Nagasaki nineteen years earlier to become the flagship of a destroyer squadron, and she had done that job through Malaya and the Indian Ocean and the Solomons. On her last night, she never got to fire. The American cruisers found her first.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/v/s/japanese-cruiser-sendai-wp/rqvs-japanese-cruiser-sendai-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Japanese cruiser Sendai: A River in Kyushu https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai/ Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyards completed Sendai on 29 April 1924. She was named for the Sendai River that runs through southern Kyushu, and she was the lead ship of a class designed for one purpose: to lead a flotilla of destroyers fast and hard into enemy water. She was long, l...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/v/s/japanese-cruiser-sendai-wp/rqvs-japanese-cruiser-sendai-a-river-in-kyushu.mp3 0:06 2 full Japanese cruiser Sendai: The Malaya Convoy https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai/ On 20 November 1941, Sendai became flagship of Destroyer Squadron 3 under Rear Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto. Her first war task was enormous in consequence: escorting the transports carrying Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the Japanese 25th Army to invade Malaya. She bega...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/v/s/japanese-cruiser-sendai-wp/rqvs-japanese-cruiser-sendai-the-malaya-convoy.mp3 0:06 3 full Japanese cruiser Sendai: The Slot https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai/ By August 1942 the war had swung around and Sendai found herself bound for the same islands Kinugasa was bleeding in. She shelled Tulagi, bombarded Henderson Field, covered convoys into Shortland and Rabaul. At the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal the American battleship Washin...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/v/s/japanese-cruiser-sendai-wp/rqvs-japanese-cruiser-sendai-the-slot.mp3 0:06 4 full Japanese cruiser Sendai: Empress Augusta Bay https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai/ The date was 2 November 1943. The Allies had landed at Cape Torokina on Bougainville the day before, and the Japanese sortied to shatter the beachhead. Sendai led the screen. At Empress Augusta Bay, Task Force 39 was waiting - four American light cruisers with search radar and gu...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/v/s/japanese-cruiser-sendai-wp/rqvs-japanese-cruiser-sendai-empress-augusta-bay.mp3 0:06 5 full Japanese cruiser Sendai: What Stays https://qualla.com/japanese-cruiser-sendai/ Sendai's wreck lies deep in the sea northwest of Bougainville, at roughly 6.17 south, 154.33 east - a position known from the battle's after-action reports but not marked by any buoy. No one dives her. From altitude the water shows nothing, only reef shadow and open ocean. The Bo...

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