Amagi (ship, 1923)
 Plan drawing of the Amagi
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The Amagi ( Japanese天 城), named after a mountain in Japan, was a ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy , the construction of which remained unfinished.
history
The construction of two new battle cruisers had been approved in 1917. Yuzuru Hiraga developed the plans for the new class of ships, which should be superior to the British HMS Hood and the American Lexington class .
The Amagi was laid down on December 16, 1920 in the Yokosuka naval shipyard as a battle cruiser . However, construction was stopped on February 5, 1922 when the ship was about 40% ready. In the negotiations at the Washington Naval Conference, strict upper limits for the construction of battleships and battlecruisers were negotiated, so that it initially looked as if the Amagi would have to be scrapped. It was ultimately negotiated that the Amagi and her sister ship Akagi could be converted into aircraft carriers.
The expansion into an aircraft carrier began in 1923. The great earthquake in Tokyo on September 1, 1923 destroyed the ship's hull almost completely a few weeks later, so that it was scrapped in 1924. As a replacement for the destroyed Amagi , the Kaga was included in the aircraft carrier program of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The name Amagi was given to the aircraft carrier Amagi, which was commissioned in 1944 .
Evidence and references
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. P. 171.
literature
- David C. Evans: Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. US Naval Institute Press, 2003, ISBN 0-87021-192-7 .