Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1934–1937
- In commission
- 1937–1942
- Preceded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
- Succeeded by
- Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 15,944 long tons (16,200 t)
- Length
- 227.5 m (746.4 ft) OA
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 1,100
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 6 × twin 12.7 cm DP guns
- 14 × twin 25 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.