Seems to be depicting (if that's the right word) the Battle of Savo Island as all the depicted ships were present with Choukai acting as flagship.
Tenryuu was lightly damaged by gunfire from USS Chicago (hence eye patch) and later two of her torpedoes hit and badly damaged the heavy cruiser USS Quincy.
It's nice to finally have a source as to where exactly it was that Tenryuu lost her "eye." Looking through English internet results never seemed to mention it.
Big Sis Choukai's making a huge historical night assault?!BOOFTake a good one for me, will ya.That thing's sunk, it's gone!Round 2The gyro compass malfunctions due to the shock of the gun recoil!Can't tell the coordinates!Aw shit!
Damn, okay, let's follow Sis Furutaka!!TurnBut the target was once again
a Heavy CruiserChoukaiAll right, fine.BashWowAww yeah!The Tenryu crew are all prepped and ready, fully intent on making the charge!
But when they do, they go line abreast with Choukai in the lead...Choukai also had four correspondents onboard.By the way, the target was actually
a Heavy Cruiser
(wasn't sunk)All ships, move in!All right, fire up the searchlight again!!AobaFIRE!
FIRE!Perhaps out of spite of being called baggage, she valiantly engages her searchlight.I wanna be there!Choukai herself takin' the lead!
That's a helluva determination!This way? Must be this wayKakoTenryu-chan!!
What happened to your eye?!You'll die! Seriously, you keep up like that you'll die!Round 1I'm first up!Hit!She's already hit by Sis ChoukaiWOWFirst Battle of the Solomon Sea (AKA Battle of Savo Island)
Summary on Tenryu-chanDuring night-time enemy recon formations, she takes the lead alongside Yuubari.Fire!
Fire!Gotta have CLs for a torpedo battle!Another Destroyer!!Cool right?
Look scary?FlashTenryu was set to go in sixth-in-line.The IJN decides to charge in with the Eighth Fleet, against the USN fleet several times larger.Tatsuta was deployed elsewhere during this time.Kick, thrashBow, bow18th Squadron sits down in the hallway outside where the operations meeting (which they were not invited to) was held, refusing to budge.It's a destroyer!OhWow?By the way, Tenryu managed to damage one of her two searchlights during this engagement.However, due to the number of years since her manufacturing, she was thought to be unfit, and her participation was declined...No no no!
If you're goin' on night battles,
don't take me off the roster!
Waaaah!They somehow manage to get their participation through.
With the Yomiuri Shimbun crew onboard, they set sail.And so...KinugasaWith Furutaka diverting trying to evade an enemy ship,
formation is split upBut thanks to that, they're able to attack from both sides!BOOM
BOOMI WIN!!The battle soon ends.
While Choukai suffered 34 deaths (and if including the return trip, Kako was also sunk),
the USN suffered 4 CAs sunk, 1 CA heavily damaged, 2 DDs moderate damaged.
The IJN was able to muster up a victory the Americans called it
One of the worst defeats in the USN's history.FurutakaTenryuuYuubari