Jun'yō

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Jun'yō
The Jun'yō 1945
The Jun'yō 1945
Ship data
flag JapanJapan (naval war flag) Japan
Ship type Aircraft carrier
class Hiyō class
Shipyard Mitsubishi in Nagasaki
Keel laying March 20, 1939
Launch June 26, 1941
Commissioning May 3, 1942
Decommissioning November 30, 1945
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1947
Ship dimensions and crew
length
219.32 m ( Lüa )
width 26.7 m
Draft Max. 8.15 m
displacement Standard : 24,140 ts
 
crew 1,187
Machine system
machine 6 Mitsubishi boiler
2 Zoelly - transmission turbines
Machine
performance 		112,500 hp (82,744 kW)
Top
speed 		25.68 kn (48 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

Anti-aircraft artillery

Anti-aircraft artillery from 1944:

  • 6 × 2 12.7 cm L / 40 type 89
  • 91 × ​​2.5 cm L / 60 type 96
  • 6 × multiple rocket launchers 12.0 cm
Sensors

Surface and air search:

  • Radar type 21 (1942)
  • Radar type 13 (1944)
Furnishing
Flight deck dimensions

210.3 m × 27.3 m

Aircraft capacity

53

The Jun'yō ( Japanese 隼 鷹 , dt. " Peregrine falcon "), incorrectly also Hayataka in the Kun reading (here homophonic with 早 鷹 , "fast falcon") instead of the On reading , was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy used in the Pacific War.

history

Construction and construction

The carrier was launched on June 26, 1941 at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki and entered service on May 5, 1942. Her sister ship was the Hiyō . Both were originally planned as passenger ships for the shipping company Nippon Yūsen , but were bought by the Japanese Navy and completed as aircraft carriers.

Calls

The Jun'yō belonged to the diversion group (Kakuta) immediately after commissioning, which made an advance against the Aleutians at the beginning of the Battle of Midway . She did not carry any torpedo bombers on this mission and her D3A and A6M aircraft attacked Dutch Harbor on June 3 and 4, 1942 .

A little later she was involved in the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands and the battle for Guadalcanal . The Jun'yō aircraft also took part in the last Japanese air offensive in the Solomon Islands (April 1943).

In November 1943 she received a torpedo hit by the American submarine USS Halibut , but was soon operational again and was one of the few Japanese warships that survived the battle in the Philippine Sea (June 18-22, 1944) unscathed.

fate

On December 9, 1944, three torpedo hits by the American submarine USS Redfish (McGregor) put the Jun'yō near Nagasaki out of action. It was able to save itself in a harbor, but was no longer repaired as a result of a lack of spare parts. The ship was finally scrapped in 1947.

See also

literature

  • Mark Stille, Tony Bryan: Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers 1921–45. Osprey Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84176-853-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jun'yō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Vice Admiral CA Lockwood: COMINT [Communications Intelligence] Contributions [to] Submarine Warfare in WW II (June 7, 1947)
  2. ^ Admiral Chester A. Nimitz: Battle of Midway. Interrogation of Japanese Prisoners. (June 21, 1942)
  3. ↑ Nippon Yusen Kaisha KK on The Ships List