Japanese aircraft carrier UnyÅ
- 2 Kampon steam turbines with reduction gear
- 4 Kampon water-tube boilers
- 2 waves with 3- bladed propellers
- 1 Rowing
- PSW 25,200 ( 18,800 kW)
The Unyō (Japanese云 鹰) was an escort carrier Taiyo class, which was rebuilt and used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II from the passenger liner Yawata Maru.
Construction and transformation
The Yawata Maru (八 幡 丸) was a passenger ship of the shipping company Nippon Yusen, laid the keel in December 1938 in the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki, where she was left in October 1939 from the stack and put into service in July 1940. It was seized in October 1941 for the transport of military equipment and personnel of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
After the Battle of Midway was decided to rebuild the escort carrier. The conversion was carried out in the Kure Naval Shipyard between 25 November 1941 and 31 May 1942. Her new name was Unyō.
Your flight deck measured 150 m × 23 m with two elevators. She had no start catapults or arresting gear to land.
Service history
The Unyō was mainly used for flight training and aircraft transportation. They often drove in association with its sister ships Taiyo and Chūyō.
On July 10, 1943 she was hit by a single torpedo Truk before the submarine USS Halibut.
On 10 January 1944, she was hit on the way to Yokosuka by three torpedoes the USS Haddock and severely damaged. As she lay for repairs before Saipan, another attack of the USS Halibut was successfully repulsed on 23 January 1944. In June 1944 she was put back into service.
On September 17, 1944 the Unyō of two torpedoes the USS Barb was hit. All attempts by the crew to prevent the sinking of the ship were unsuccessful. 761 Of the 1000 persons on board were rescued.