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Haguro (羽黒) was the last of the four-member Myoko class of heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after a mountain in Yamagata Prefecture. The other ships of her class were Myoko (妙高), Nachi (那智), and Ashigara (足柄).

The ships of this class displaced 13300 tons, were 204 metres long, and were capable of 36 knots. They carried one aircraft and their main armament was 10 8-inch guns.

Haguro was laid down at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki on 16 March 1925, launched and named on 24 March 1928, and was commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 25 April 1929. Her service in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough started in the Dutch East Indies, where she engaged the enemy off MakassarMakassar Macassar Mangkasar is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, in Indonesia, on the island of Sulawesi. The city was formally named Ujung Pandang after a precolonial fort in the city, from 1971 to 1999, and the two names are often used interchan on 8 February 1942, played a role in the sinking of HMS Exeter and her escort in the battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, and was engaged in another action off south Borneo on 1 March 1942. On 7 May 1942 she participated in the battle of the Coral Sea, moving on to the Solomon Islands where she took part in the battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942, the evacuation from Guadalcanal at the end of January 1943, and took light damage in the battle of Empress Augusta Bay on 2 November 1943. On 19 June 1944 she survived the battle of the Philippine Sea, and on 23 October – 25 October 1944 she took light damage in the battle of Leyte Gulf, before finally being sunk in the Indian Ocean on 16 May 1945.

Haguro under attack at Rabaul on 2 November 1943, showing damage received in the battle of Empress Augusta Bay that morning.

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