Japanese aircraft carrier Junyō
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | SS Kashiwara Maru |
| Owner: | Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Company) |
| Ordered: | Late 1938 |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki |
| Yard number: | 900 |
| Way number: | 3 |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1939 |
| Launched: | 26 June 1941 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Imperial Japanese Navy, 10 February 1941 |
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| Namesake: | Peregrine falcon |
| Launched: | 26 June 1941 |
| Acquired: | 10 February 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 3 May 1942 |
| Renamed: | Jun'yō |
| Struck: | 30 November 1945 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1946–1947 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | Hiyō-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 24,150 t (23,770 long tons) (standard) |
| Length: | 219.32 m (719 ft 7 in) (o/a) |
| Beam: | 26.7 m (87 ft 7 in) |
| Draft: | 8.15 m (26 ft 9 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbine sets |
| Speed: | 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) |
| Range: | 12,251 nmi (22,689 km; 14,098 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,187–1,224 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
1 × Type 2, Mark 2, Model 1 early-warning radar |
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| Aircraft carried: | 42–48 |
Jun'yō (隼鷹 "Peregrine Falcon"?) was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru (橿原丸?), but was purchased by the IJN in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles during the Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land bases during several battles in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns.
Jun'yō was torpedoed in November 1943 and spent three months under repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1945, when work was cancelled as uneconomical. She was then effectively hulked for the rest of the war. After the surrender of Japan in September, the Americans also decided that she was not worth the cost to make her serviceable for use as a repatriation ship, and she was broken up in 1946–1947.
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