Imperial Japanese Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Zuihō-class aircraft carrier
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- In commission
- 30 September 1937–mid-1941 (as submarine tenders)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 11,262 long tons (11,443 t)
- Length
- 205.44 m (674 ft)
- Speed
- 28 knots (51.9 km/h, 32.2 mph)
- Complement
- 785
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 12.7 cm AA guns
- 4 × twin 25 mm AA guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō | 1941 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Japanese aircraft carrier Zuihō | 1940 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Zuihō-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.