Japanese aircraft carrier Jun’yō
Service
- as Kashiwara Maru3 May 1942 — 30 November 19451,218 days of the war
- Name
- Jun'yō
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki
- Ordered
- 1938
- Laid down
- 20 March 1939
- Launched
- 26 June 1941
- Commissioned
- 3 May 1942
- Struck
- 30 November 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1946–1947 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 23,769 long tons (24,150 t)
- Length
- 219.32 m (719.6 ft) OA
- Beam
- 26.7 m (87.6 ft)
- Draught
- 8.15 m (26.7 ft)
- Speed
- 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h, 29.3 mph)
- Range
- 12,251 nmi (22,689 km)
- Complement
- 1,187
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Jun'yō was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki laid her keel on 20 March 1939. Launched on 26 June 1941, she entered service on 3 May 1942.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier and was succeeded by the Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō.
Displacement was 23,769 long tons. She measured 219.3 m (720 ft) long with a beam of 26.7 m (88 ft). Her designed speed was 25.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,187.
Her main battery was twelve 127 mm (5 in) guns in six twin mountings. She carried 42 aircraft. 56,250 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,218 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 30 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbine sets
- Power
- 56250 shp
- 6 Kampon water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 6 × twin 12.7 cm dual-purpose guns
- 8 × triple 25 mm AA guns
- Armour
- Belt: 25 - 50 mm
- Aircraft
- 42–48
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo 80-G-701429 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons