RYUZYO
Shipyard: Yokohama
Keel Laid: Nov. 26, 1929
Launched: April 2, 1931
Entered service: May 9, 1933
Displacement: 10,600 tons (standard); 13,650 tons (full)
Complement: 924
Length: 590.7 ft (179,9m)
Beam: 68.5 ft (20,8m)
Draught: 23.3 ft (7,08m)
Flight deck: 156,5x23m
Hnagar deck: 102,4x19m
Elevators: 2 (11,1x15,7m; 2nd very small only for B5N2
with folding wings
Aircraft:36, max 48
Guns:
(1933)
12 - 127mm (6x2)
(1934)
8 - 127mm (4x2)
(1940)
8 - 127mm (4x2)
4 - 25mm
12 - 13.2mm MG Hotchkiss
(1942)
8 - 127mm (4x2)
22 - 25mm
12 - 13.2mm MG Hotchkiss
Armour:
Speed: 29 knots
Machinery: 2 geared turbines. 6 Kanpon Boilers. S.H.P.
66,270. 2 shafts. |
Notes: Smoke discharge is arranged through 2 funnels
projecting from starboard side. This ship, though completed at
Yokosuma Naval Yard, was actually laid down and launched at the
Yokohama Dock Company`s establishment. In Sept., 1942, she was
severaly damaged in action with Allied naval forces off the Solomon
Islands, and her survival is doubtful.
Sunk in Battle of the East Solomons Aug 24, 1942 by planes
from USS Saratoga, after four 454kg bomb hits. Sunk in 20:00. |
