Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 1 Completed
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1920–1922
- In commission
- 1922–1945
- Preceded by
- None
- Succeeded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,470 long tons (7,590 t)
- Length
- 168.25 m (552 ft)
- Speed
- 25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
- Complement
- 512
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × single 14 cm guns
- 2 × single 8 cm (3 in) AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.