Imperial Japanese Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Chitose-class aircraft carrier
Chitose class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 11,190 long tons (11,370 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 15,300 long tons (15,546 t)
- Length
- 192.5 m (631.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 28.9 knots (53.5 km/h, 33.3 mph)
- Complement
- 800
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 12.7cm/40 caliber guns
- 30 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese aircraft carrier Chitose | 1938 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese aircraft carrier Chiyoda | 1938 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Chitose-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.