Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1920–1928
- In commission
- 1928–1942
- Preceded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi
- Succeeded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
After 1935 modernization
- Displacement, standard
- 38,200 long tons (38,813 t)
- Length
- 247.65 m (812.5 ft)
- Speed
- 28 knots (51.9 km/h, 32.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,708
- Main gun
- 200 mm (7.9 in)
- Armament
- 10 × single 200 mm guns
- 8 × twin 127 mm DP guns
- 11 × twin Type 96 25 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.