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KAIYO escort aircraft carrier (1939 / 1942)


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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 equipment1-shiki 2-go radar
Complement

829



Air group


Year Fighters diving bombers
1944 18 A6M2 6 D3A


Standard scale images


<i>Kayo</i> 1944
Kayo 1944


Graphics


  <i>Kaiyo</i> 1943 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
  Kaiyo 1943 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


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.