Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1920–1927
- In commission
- 1927–1942
- Preceded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
- Succeeded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
After 1938 modernization
- Displacement, standard
- 36,500 long tons (37,086 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 41,300 long tons (41,963 t)
- Length
- 260.67 m (855.2 ft)
- Speed
- 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h, 36.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,630
- Main gun
- 200 mm (7.9 in)
- Armament
- 6 × single 20 cm guns
- 6 × twin 120 mm AA guns
- 14 × twin 25 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.