Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1929–1931
- In commission
- 1931–1942
- Preceded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
- Succeeded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,874 long tons (8,000 t)
- Length
- 179.9 m (590.2 ft) OA
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 600
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 6 × twin 12.7 cm DP guns
- 12 × twin 13.2 mm AA MGs
1936
- Displacement, standard
- 10,433 long tons (10,600 t)
- Complement
- 934
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 12.7 cm dual-purpose guns
- 2 × twin 25 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.