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Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō : ウィキペディア英語版 | Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō
〔Silverstone, p. 329〕 was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Begun as the ocean liner in 1939, she was purchased by the Navy Ministry in 1941 for conversion to an aircraft carrier. Completed shortly after the Battle of Midway in June 1942, she participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign in October and missed the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands later that month because of an electrical generator fire. Her aircraft were disembarked several times and used from land bases in a number of battles in the South West Pacific. ''Hiyō'' was torpedoed in mid-1943 and spent three months under repair. She spent most of the next six months training and ferrying aircraft before returning to combat. She was sunk by a gasoline vapor explosion caused by an American torpedo hit during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944. ==Design and description== The ship was ordered as the fast luxury passenger liner ''Izumo Maru'' by ''Nippon Yusen Kaisha'' (Japan Mail Steamship Company) in late 1938. In exchange for a 60% subsidy of her building costs by the Navy Ministry, she was designed to be converted to an aircraft carrier.〔Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, pp. 17, 106〕 ''Hiyō'' had a length of overall. She had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced at standard load.〔Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, p. 107〕 Her crew ranged from 1,187 to 1,224 officers and enlisted men.〔Jentschura, Jung and Mickel, p. 52〕 The ship was fitted with two Mitsubishi-Curtis geared steam turbine sets with a total of , each driving a propeller. Steam was provided by six Kawasaki-La Mont water-tube boilers. Her machinery, designed for merchant service, was over four times heavier than that of the aircraft carrier . ''Hiyō'' had a designed speed of , but during sea trials she reached from . The ship carried of fuel oil which gave her a range of at .〔Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, pp. 189–90〕
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