Carrier Ryujo
Open the military map航空母艦龍驤
Carrier
Light carrier sunk at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on August 24, 1942 by aircraft from USS Saratoga.
Class / type
龍驤型
Displacement
10,600 Tons
Complement
924
Launched
2 April 1931
Commissioned / formed
9 May 1933
Lost / disbanded
24 August 1942
- Armament
- 12.7cm高角砲8門、艦載機48機
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack
History
Light carrier sunk at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on August 24, 1942 by aircraft from USS Saratoga.
Related sites (2)
- Built35.450, 139.640
Mitsubishi (Yokohama Dock), Yokohama — hull laid down 26 November 1929 and launched 2 April 1931; fitted out at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and completed 9 May 1933.
- Sunk-6.167, 160.833
Eastern Solomons (06°10′S 160°50′E, north of Tulagi) — bombed and torpedoed by aircraft from USS Saratoga on 24 August 1942; capsized and sank that evening.