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 Battle of Midway 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) 18 Mitsubishi A6M Zero, 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
Attack on Pearl Harbor - Invasion of Rabaul - Bombing of Darwin - Invasion of Java - Battle of Midway