Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1936–1939
- In commission
- 1939–1942
- Preceded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū
- Succeeded by
- Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 17,300 long tons (17,578 t)
- Length
- 227.4 m (746.1 ft) OA
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 1,100
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 6 × twin 12.7 cm (5 in) DP guns
- 7 × triple, 5 × twin 25 mm (1 in) AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.