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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
神威 [Kamoi]		267	New York SB, Camden, USA // Uraga, Tokyo	14.9.1921	8.6.1922	6.1922 // 6.1933	tanker 1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	17000
Displacement full, t	19240 on trials
Length, m	148.9 pp 151.2 oa
Breadth, m	20.4
Draught, m	8.43
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 electric motors, 2 Curtiss turbine-generators, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	9000
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 2500
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 140/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 12 seaplanes (E1Y, E2N, E3A, E4N, E5Y)
Complement

Standard scale images

Graphics

Aircraft facilities

Aircraft based on deck.

Project history

Former tanker. At conversion experience with Notoro was used. Differing from the latter seaplanes have been better protected from bad weather at the expense of light hinged platforms over upper deck. Seaplanes flied off from water and landed also there and lifted to a deck by cargo booms.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Re-rated as flying boat tender in 1940.