Download or read book The Light Cruiser Yahagi written by Mariusz Motyka and published by Kagero. This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yahagi, the second Japanese warship of that name, was the third of the four Agano-class vessels (the other three being Agano, Noshiro and Sakawa). Construction of the Agano-class cruisers was approved by the Japanese parliament (Diet) in March 1939 under the Fourth Naval Armaments Enhancement Program (Dai-Yon-Ji Kaigun Gunbi J jitsu Keikaku), also known as Four-in-Circle Program (Maru Yon Keikaku), or simply Maru 4. Under the terms of the program, the four light cruisers (kei jun y kan), also referred to as type B cruisers (otsu-gata jun y kan, or simply otsu jun) and officially classed as second-class cruisers (ni-t jun y kan), were to fulfill the role of destroyer squadron flagships. At that time destroyer squadrons (DesRon), called literarily torpedo squadrons (suirai sentai), consisted of four four-ship destroyer divisions (DesDiv, or kuchiku-tai)."