Carrier Hiyo
Open the military map航空母艦飛鷹
Carrier
Converted from the luxury liner Izumo Maru. Sunk at the Battle of the Philippine Sea on June 20, 1944.
Class / type
飛鷹型
Displacement
24,140 Tons
Complement
1,187
Launched
24 June 1941
Commissioned / formed
31 July 1942
Lost / disbanded
20 June 1944
- Armament
- 12.7cm高角砲12門、艦載機53機
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack
History
Converted from the luxury liner Izumo Maru. Sunk at the Battle of the Philippine Sea on June 20, 1944.
Related sites (2)
- Built34.680, 135.183
Kawasaki shipyard, Kobe — laid down 30 November 1939 as the NYK liner Izumo Maru, bought by the Navy in February 1941, launched 24 June 1941 and completed as a carrier on 31 July 1942.
- Sunk16.333, 132.533
Philippine Sea (16°20′N 132°32′E) — hit by American carrier aircraft at dusk on 20 June 1944; a gasoline-vapour explosion followed and she sank that evening.