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Archive photo showing the Japanese carrier Kaga off Ikari Japan 1930 01

Archive photo showing the Japanese carrier Kaga off Ikari Japan 1930 01

航空母艦 『加賀』

  Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga

 

航空母艦 『加賀』

Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga

Class overview

Operators: Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by: Akagi
Succeeded by: Ryūjō
Built: 1920–28
In service: 1928–42
In commission:1928–42
Completed: 1
Lost: 1

Career (Japan)

Name: Kaga
Namesake: Kaga Province
Builder: Kawasaki and Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Cost: ¥53 million ($36.45 million) [1]
Laid down: 19 July 1920
Launched: 17 November 1921
Completed: 31 March 1928
Commissioned: 30 November 1929
Reclassified: 21 November 1923 as an aircraft carrier
Refit: 20 October 1933 – 25 June 1935
Struck: 10 August 1942
Fate: Scuttled after being heavily damaged by a US air attack at the on 4 June 1942

General characteristics (after 1935 modernization)

Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: 38,200 long tons (38,813 t) (standard)
Length: 247.65 m (812 ft 6 in)
Beam: 32.5 m (106 ft 8 in)
Draft: 9.48 m (31 ft 1 in)
Installed power: 127,400 shp (95,000 kW)
Propulsion: 4-shaft Kampon geared turbines, 8 Kampon Type B boilers
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance: 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 1,708 (after reconstruction)
Armament: 10 × 1 – 200 mm (7.9 in) guns,[2] 8 × 2 – 127 mm (5.0 in) guns, 11 × 2 – 25 mm (0.98 in) AA guns
Armor: Belt: 152 mm (6.0 in); Deck: 38 mm (1.5 in)
Aircraft carried: 90 (total); 72 (+ 18 in storage) (1936) 27 Aichi D3A Aichi D3A, 27 Nakajima B5N Nakajima B5N (+ 9 in storage) (Dec. 1941)

Service record

Part of First Air Fleet Carrier Striking Task Force

Operations: 28 January Incident; Second Sino - Japanese War, World War II - Pacific War

- Invasion of Rabaul - Bombing of Darwin - Invasion of Java -

 

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