Carrier Katsuragi
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Carrier
Unryu-class carrier that survived the war. Used as a repatriation transport postwar, then scrapped 1946-1947.
Class / type
雲龍型
Displacement
17,150 Tons
Complement
1,595
Launched
19 January 1944
Commissioned / formed
15 October 1944
- Armament
- 12.7cm高角砲12門、艦載機65機
- Fate
- Scrapped
History
Unryu-class carrier that survived the war. Used as a repatriation transport postwar, then scrapped 1946-1947.
Related sites (2)
- Built34.231, 132.565
Kure Naval Arsenal — laid down 8 December 1942, launched 19 January 1944, completed 15 October 1944.
- Stationed34.195, 132.513
Kure area — from February 1945 Katsuragi lay camouflaged at a mooring near Kure (off Mitsukojima), where she was bombed on 24 and 28 July 1945 but stayed afloat. (Her registered home port was Sasebo.)