JAPAN’S NAVY
AIRCRAFT CARRIER. POWERFUL VESSEL LAUNCHED. DESIGNED AjS BATTLE CRUISER. GY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received April 23, 10.40 a.m.' * TOKIO, April 22. The Akavi has lieen launched and will lie completed in 1927. Her tonnage will lie 26,900, and her speed 28) knots. Her armament includes ten 20-centimetre and four. 12-oentimetre and twelve 12-centimetre -anti-aircraft guns. She will cary a large number of aeroplanes of all types.—Reuter. The Akagi was originally laid clown fo r a battle-cruiser, but -after the Washington- disarmament conference it was decided to convert her and her sister ship the Ivaga into aircraft carriers. They were’ not to be equipped with heavy guns, but with their turbine engines of 170,000 horse-power would he admirably qualified for their new class of work.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 April 1925, Page 5
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125JAPAN’S NAVY Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 April 1925, Page 5
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