Carrier Chiyoda
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Carrier
Sister of Chitose, also converted from seaplane carrier. Sunk at Cape Engano on October 25, 1944 by surface gunfire.
Class / type
千歳型
Displacement
11,190 Tons
Complement
800
Launched
19 November 1937
Commissioned / formed
21 December 1943
Lost / disbanded
25 October 1944
- Armament
- 12.7cm高角砲8門、艦載機30機
- Fate
- Sunk in battle
History
Sister of Chitose, also converted from seaplane carrier. Sunk at Cape Engano on October 25, 1944 by surface gunfire.
Related sites (2)
- Built34.231, 132.565
Kure Naval Arsenal — built as a seaplane carrier (launched 19 November 1937, commissioned 15 December 1938). The conversion to a light carrier was carried out at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in 1943.
- Sunk18.617, 126.750
Off Cape Engaño (18°37′N 126°45′E) — left dead in the water by carrier aircraft on 25 October 1944, Chiyoda was sunk that afternoon by gunfire from American cruisers and destroyers; there were no survivors.