Aircraft carrier class
Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō
Taihō
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1941–1944
- In commission
- 7 March – 19 June 1944
- Preceded by
- Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- Unryū-class aircraft carrier
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 29,770 long tons (30,248 t)
- Length
- 260.6 m (855 ft)
- Speed
- 33.3 knots (61.7 km/h, 38.3 mph)
- Complement
- 1,751
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 6 × twin 10 cm AA guns
- 17 × triple 25 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.