Imperial Japanese Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Hiyō-class aircraft carrier
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1939–1942
- In commission
- 1942–1945
- Preceded by
- Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō
- Builders
- Kawasaki Shipyard, Kobe
- Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Jun'yō as built
- Displacement, standard
- 23,769 long tons (24,150 t)
- Length
- 219.32 m (719.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h, 29.3 mph)
- Complement
- 1,187
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 6 × twin 12.7 cm Type 89 dual-purpose guns
- 8 × triple 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō | 1942 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese aircraft carrier Jun’yō | 1942 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Hiyō-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.