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The Kashii was a Japanese light cruiser whose keel was laid in 1939, launched in October 1940, and commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy in July 1941. The ship was 130 m long, 15.9 m wide, and her full displacement was 6,200 tons. The cruiser Kashii's maximum speed was only 18 knots. The main armament was 4 140 mm guns in two turrets, two cannons each, and the additional armament was, among others: two 127 mm guns and two twin 533 mm torpedo tubes. Kashii was the third and final Katori-class cruiser. Originally, at the time of ordering, these types of units were planned as training ships, but during the Pacific War, they were adapted as light cruisers and performed various auxiliary functions in the Japanese fleet. The career of cruiser Kashii during World War II began in December 1941,

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