Carrier Hosho
Open the military map航空母艦鳳翔
Carrier
World's first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned. Served throughout WWII as a training carrier. Survived the war and was scrapped in 1946–47.
Class / type
鳳翔型
Displacement
7,470 Tons
Complement
512
Launched
13 November 1921
Commissioned / formed
27 December 1922
- Armament
- 14cm砲4門、艦載機15機
- Fate
- Scrapped
History
World's first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned. Served throughout WWII as a training carrier. Survived the war and was scrapped in 1946–47.
Related sites (2)
- Built35.490, 139.680
Asano Shipbuilding, Tsurumi, Yokohama — hull laid down 16 December 1920 and launched 13 November 1921; fitted out at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and completed 27 December 1922.
- Homeport34.231, 132.565
Kure — home port from 1 December 1937 (Yokosuka before that); Hōshō spent 1942–45 in the Inland Sea as a training carrier.