Japanese aircraft carrier Chiyoda
Chiyoda in 1944 after conversion into an aircraft carrier | |
| History | |
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| Japan | |
| Name | Chiyoda |
| Namesake | Chiyoda, Tokyo |
| Ordered | 1934 |
| Builder | Kure Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | 14 December 1936 as seaplane carrier |
| Launched | 19 November 1937 |
| Commissioned | 15 December 1938 |
| Recommissioned | 21 December 1943 |
| Reclassified | 15 December 1943 as light carrier |
| Refit | 1942 to 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Chitose-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 192.5 m (631 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 20.8 m (68 ft 3 in) |
| Draft | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power | 56,000 shp (42,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28.9 knots (53.5 km/h; 33.3 mph) |
| Complement | 800 |
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Chiyoda (千代田, "Thousandth-Generation Field") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Originally constructed as the second vessel of the Chitose-class seaplane tenders in 1934, she continued to operate in that capacity during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the early stages of the Pacific War until her conversion into a light aircraft carrier after the Battle of Midway. She was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf by a combination of naval bombers, cruiser shellfire and destroyer-launched torpedoes.