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The Mogami cannot be called a lucky ship, as she suffered two collisions with other cruisers: first with Mikuma during the Battle of Midway and two years later with Nachi in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

But what a splendid ship! With ten 8-inch guns and able to make 35 knots, she was faster than any battleship and could blow anything smaller out of the water.  It's a great concept, and not a new one. Essentially that was the design philosophy behind the USS Constitution and her sister "heavy frigates" of the late Eighteenth Century; they could out-sail any British ship-of-the-line, and could out-gun anything else. But Mogami's career was considerably shorter-lived than Constitution's.

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Sources: Public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

and pictures from my father's 1943 Naval Recognition Manual

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