Carrier Junyo
Open the military map航空母艦隼鷹
Carrier
Converted carrier, sister of Hiyo. One of few Japanese carriers to survive the war. Scrapped 1946-1947.
Class / type
飛鷹型
Displacement
24,140 Tons
Complement
1,187
Launched
26 June 1941
Commissioned / formed
3 May 1942
- Armament
- 12.7cm高角砲12門、艦載機53機
- Fate
- Scrapped
History
Converted carrier, sister of Hiyo. One of few Japanese carriers to survive the war. Scrapped 1946-1947.
Related sites (2)
- Built32.745, 129.873
Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard — laid down 20 March 1939 as the NYK liner Kashiwara Maru, launched 26 June 1941 and completed as a carrier on 3 May 1942.
- Stationed33.157, 129.715
Sasebo — Jun'yō limped here after being torpedoed off Nagasaki in December 1944, was never fully repaired, and lay here until the surrender; she was scrapped at Sasebo in 1946–47. (Her registered home port was Kure.)