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Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red castle", named after Mount Akagi) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Though she was laid down as an Amagi-class battlecruiser, Akagi was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
Location Casualties Conditions Aquila: Fleet carrier 51 aircraft 19 April 1945 Genova Harbor, Italy — Never completed. Sunk by Italian divers to prevent use as a blockship by Germans. Sparviero: Light carrier 34 aircraft 5 October 1944 Genova Harbor, Italy — Never completed. Sunk by Germans to block Genova Harbor
On 20 October 2019, the director of undersea operations Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson aboard Petrel identified the wreck of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi using high-frequency sonar. Located 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Akagi was found at a depth of 18,011 feet ...
Akagi after her launch in April 1925; she had already been converted to an aircraft carrier. Akagi was the first ship of the class to be laid down; construction began on 6 December 1920 at the naval yard in Kure. Amagi followed ten days later at the Yokosuka naval yard. The projected completion dates for the first pair of ships were December ...
The pair were then joined by planes from the fellow aircraft carrier Akagi, who on her own sank the destroyer HMAS Vampire. The floating wreck of Hermes rapidly sank, having only managed to shoot down six attacking planes. [5] [6] Zuikaku, alongside Shōkaku, was the first aircraft carrier in history to sink an enemy aircraft carrier in combat.
It was sunk northwest of Hawaii during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
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