1/700 IJN Tenryu at Savo (Hasegawa)

By far the weakest cruiser of Vice-Admiral Mikawa´s fleet, the 24- years old vintage-looking light cruiser Tenryu proved to be a valuable asset of the Japanese assault force on August 9th, 1942.Armed with 533mm torpedoes (no Long Lance, but still among the best of that time) and only four 14cm guns she managed to put two torpedoes into USS Quincy thus sealing her fate and Tenryu´s gunfire contributed to sinking USS Astoria, USS Vincennes and HMAS Canberra and damaging other units. Hit by a 5in shell probably from USS Chicago she suffered 23 casulaties that night.

5th ship in my Battle of Savo Island collection, the Tenryu is shown getting ready to launch her torpedoes at USS Quincy.

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