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Description: Japanese Sendai Class Light Cruiser - Heavily retouched photograph, taken when the ship was new, circa 1924-1925. The inscription in the lower left identifies the photo as (reading from right to left): Cruiser Jintsu, Sendai, Naka (and two illegible characters). The three ships named were the only members of this class to be constructed.
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