Maya

Cruiser Maya (摩耶) is a premium ship in our game, and is based on the 1944 refit. Cruiser Maya, aTakao-Class Cruiser, and was built for the Imperial Japanese Navy between 8 Nov 1930 to 30 June 1932.  She was fast, powerful and heavily armed, with enough firepower to hold her own against any cruiser in any other navy in the world.

Takao-Class Cruiser  served between the years of 1932 to 1944.

Preceded by: Myōkō class

Succeeded by: Mogami class

On 22 October 1944 Maya (摩耶) was in the Battle of Leyte Gulf,  Maya was assigned to Sentai-5 with sister ships Atago, Takao and Chōkai along with battleships Yamato, Musashi and Nagato. At 05:33 on 23 October, during Battle of the Palawan Passage, Maya's sister-ships Atago and Takao were torpedoed by the submarine USS Darter. Atago sank in approximately 18 minutes. Twenty minutes later, submarine USS Dace fired six torpedoes at Maya, mistaking it for a Kongō-class battleship; Maya was struck by four torpedoes portside: one in the forward chain locker, another opposite No. 1 gun turret, a third in No. 7 boiler room and the last in the aft engine room. Powerful secondary explosions followed immediately, and by 06:00 Maya was dead in the water and listing heavily to port. She sank five minutes later, Akishimo rescued 769 men, and transferred them to the battleship Musashi, which was sunk the following day; 143 of Maya's crewmen were lost with Musashi. Thus, from the final crew of 1,105 crewmen, 479 were lost.