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  Kaiyo 1943 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
海鷹 [Kaiyo] (ex-アルゼンチン丸 [Argentina Maru])		734	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki	22.2.1938	9.12.1938	5.1939 // 23.11.1943	damaged 28.7.1945, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	13600
Displacement full, t	16748
Length, m	155.0 pp 159.6 wl 166.6 oa
Breadth, m	21.9 wl 23.5 fd
Draught, m	8.04
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Kampon geared steam turbines, 4 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	52000
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 8 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCR(8), 24 aircraft (A6M fighters, D3A, D4Y diving bombers, B5N, B6N torpedo bombers)
Electronic equipment	1-shiki 2-go radar
Complement	829

Air group

Year	Fighters	diving bombers
1944	18 A6M2	6 D3A

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Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 3,760m², ha ? m² / ? m³): Flight deck: 160.0x23.5m. There was hangar. There were 2 lifts (12.0x13.0m). Aircraft fuel stowage: ?.       

Project history

Former passenger liner of OSK Shipping Co. Argentina Maru (12755BRT, 21.5kts), requisitioned in December, 1941 and within a year used as troop transport. In December, 1942 she was put on conversion to escort carrier and renamed Kayo. Planned similar conversion of sister-ship Brazil Maru has not taken place: 5.8.1942 she was sunk.

Conversion design as a whole repeated Taiyo, but provided replacing of diesels by steam turbines. In remaining construction was standard: single-level hangar, two elevators, light flight deck with wooden floor.

Modernizations 7.

1944: + 20 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, (4 - 6) x 28 - 120 AA RL, 8 DCT

Naval service

19.3.1945 Kayo was damaged by American carrier aircraft. 24.7.1945 she was damaged by magnetic mine (aft part was damaged) and ran aground on a bank in Beppu Bay. 28.7.1945 she was hard damaged by bombs of British carrier aircraft and stricken. Wreck was scrapped in 1946.