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into IJN Fate Iki (ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I) 9,594 tons 2 × 12-in. 6 × 6-in. ... List of sunken aircraft carriers; List of aircraft carriers by country;
Light Aircraft Carrier (9) Class Picture Type Ships Displacement Note Hōshō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Hōshō (1922–1945) 7,470 tonnes First purpose-built carrier in the world. Scrapped 1946. Ryūjō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Ryūjō (1931–1942) 8,000 tonnes Sunk 1942. Hiyō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Hiyō (1942–1944) Jun ...
Commissioned into IJN Fate Kongō: Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness: Kongō-class battlecruiser: 26,230 16 August 1913 21 November 1944; sunk by USS Sealion in the Formosa Strait Hiei: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan: Kongō-class battlecruiser 26,230 4 August 1914 13 November 1942; sunk by USN ships and aircraft in the Naval Battle of ...
Pages in category "Aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
10 April 1941 => 14 July 1942, carrier task force. 1 July 1943 => 15 June 1945, reconstituted as the land-based air fleet. 2nd Air Fleet (第二航空艦隊, Dai-Ni Kōkū Kantai) 15 June 1944 => 8 January 1945, land-based air fleet. 3rd Air Fleet (第三航空艦隊, Dai-San Kōkū Kantai) 10 July 1944 => 15 October 1945, land-based air fleet.
Nakajima B5N Kate 1937 Navy carrier torpedo bomber; Aichi D3A Val 1938 Navy carrier dive bomber; Mitsubishi G4M Betty 1939 Navy land-based bomber; Yokosuka D4Y 彗星 "Suisei" Judy 1940 dive bomber; Nakajima B6N 天山 "Tenzan" Jill 1941 Navy torpedo bomber; Aichi B7A 流星 "Ryusei" Grace 1942 Navy carrier torpedo bomber
The 1st Air Fleet (第一航空艦隊, Dai-Ichi Kōkū Kantai) formed the primary carrier fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), a grouping of naval aircraft and aircraft carriers that at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet. As losses mounted, the carriers were removed and the 1st Air Fleet ...
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun ⓘ 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.