Imperial Japanese Navy's Unryū-class aircraft carrier
For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Katsuragi.
Katsuragi serving as a troop transport, 1946
History
Empire of Japan
Name
Katsuragi
Namesake
Mount Katsuragi
Ordered
25 June 1942
Builder
Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down
8 December 1942
Launched
19 January 1944
Completed
15 October 1944
Stricken
15 November 1946
Fate
Scrapped, 22 December 1946 – 30 November 1947
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type
Unryū-class aircraft carrier
Displacement
22,534 t (22,178 long tons) (deep load)
Length
227.35 m (745 ft 11 in)
Beam
22 m (72 ft 2 in)
Draft
7.93 m (26 ft 0 in)
Installed power
8 Kampon water-tube boilers
104,000 shp (78,000 kW)
Propulsion
4 shafts
4 geared steam turbine sets
Speed
32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement
1,536 (1,600 as flagship)
Sensors and processing systems
2 × Type 2, Mark 2, Model 1 air search radars
2 × Type 3, Mark 1, Model 3 air search radars
1 × Type 93 sonar
2 × Type 0 hydrophones
Electronic warfare & decoys
1 × Type E-27 radar detector
1 × Model 3 radar detector
Armament
6 × 2 – 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 DP guns
22 × 3, 30 × 1 – 25 mm (0.98 in) Type 96 AA guns
6 × 28 - 12 cm (4.7 in) AA rocket launchers
Armor
Belt: 25–100 mm (0.98–3.94 in)
Deck: 25–130 mm (0.98–5.12 in)
Katsuragi (葛城) was the third and final Unryū-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy built during World War II. Named after Mount Katsuragi,[1] in Nara Prefecture, and completed late in the war; she never embarked her complement of aircraft and spent the war in Japanese waters. The ship was badly damaged in a July 1945 airstrike by American carrier aircraft on Kure Naval Base. Repaired after the end of the war, Katsuragi was then used as a repatriation transport for a number of months, bringing Japanese soldiers and civilians back to Japan from overseas locations. She was scrapped in Japan beginning in late 1946.
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