Kayo 1944
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 海鷹 [Kaiyo] (ex-アルゼンチン丸 [Argentina Maru]) | 734 | Mitsubishi, Nagasaki | 22.2.1938 | 9.12.1938 | 5.1939 // 23.11.1943 | damaged 28.7.1945, never repaired |
|
Displacement standard, t |
13600 |
|
Displacement full, t |
16748 |
|
Length, m |
155.0 pp 159.6 wl 166.6 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
21.9 wl 23.5 fd |
|
Draught, m |
8.04 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 sets Kampon geared steam turbines, 4 Kampon boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
52000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
23 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament |
4 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 8 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCR(8), 24 aircraft (A6M fighters, D3A, D4Y diving bombers, B5N, B6N torpedo bombers) |
| Electronic equipment | 1-shiki 2-go radar |
|
Complement |
829 |
Aircraft facilities (fd - 3,760m², ha ? m² / ? m³): Flight deck: 160.0x23.5m. There was hangar. There were 2 lifts (12.0x13.0m). Aircraft fuel stowage: ?.
| Year | fighters | diving bombers |
| 1944 | 18 A6M2 | 6 D3A |
Project history: Former passenger liner of OSK Shipping Co. Argentina Maru (12755BRT, 21.5kts), requisitioned in December, 1941 and within a year used as troop transport. In December, 1942 she was put on conversion to escort carrier and renamed Kayo. Planned similar conversion of sister-ship Brazil Maru has not taken place: 5.8.1942 she was sunk.
Conversion design as a whole repeated Taiyo, but provided replacing of diesels by steam turbines. In remaining construction was standard: single-level hangar, two elevators, light flight deck with wooden floor.
Modernizations: 7.1944: + 20 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, (4 - 6) x 28 - 120 AA RL, 8 DCT
Naval service: 19.3.1945 Kayo was damaged by American carrier aircraft. 24.7.1945 she was damaged by magnetic mine (aft part was damaged) and ran aground on a bank in Beppu Bay. 28.7.1945 she was hard damaged by bombs of British carrier aircraft and stricken. Wreck was scrapped in 1946.
Kaiyo 1943
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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