Japan's large-scale high-speed passenger ship modification of aircraft carriers are mainly seven eagles, "Big Eagle", "Cloud Eagle", "Rush Eagle", "Sea Eagle", "Condor Eagle", "Flying Eagle" and "Falcon Eagle", after the 1937 invasion of China, Japan began to prepare for the transformation of merchant ships. In 1940, Japan's international relations deteriorated, and a large number of merchant ships began to be requisitioned, and at the end of 1942, 5 "Big Eagles", "Cloud Eagles", "Rush Eagles", "Flying Eagles" and "Falcon Eagles" were transformed, and finally only the "Hayabusa" and "Sea Eagles" were left, and the rest were sunk.
On June 4, 1942, after the Battle of Midway, 3 merchant ships (why three, please look back) were added for modification, and in 1943, the modification was completed, it was "SeaHawk" and "Condor", a total of 7 were remodeled in the whole process of World War II, and 3 of these 7 modified aircraft carriers were directly requisitioned before they were built (the passenger ships were not yet built), of which the smaller ones were "Flying Eagle" and "Falcon Eagle", these two were about 10,000 tons, the others were 15,000 to 20,000 tons, and the speed was 21 to 23 knots. It can carry 20 to 30 aircraft, all of which are through decks, single-deck hangars, and two lifts.
"Big Eagle" in late August 1942 to carry out the first mission, the second Battle of Solomon escorted the battleship "Yamato", during the course of the operation, its task was to transport the aircraft from the mainland to the southwest Pacific islands, because there was no port, the aircraft took off directly from the aircraft carrier, landed at the island's airstrip, and since then it has been switched to second-line operations, in September 1942 in the southwest Pacific Ocean of Truk Island was attacked by the American submarine "Ray", a torpedo hit the middle of the ship, In April 1943 in the same sea area was attacked by another submarine "Tuna", due to fuse failure did not explode, 4 months later, when returning home, encountered the United States submarine to launch torpedoes evaded by the aircraft carrier, back to the Ogasawara Islands near the submarine was also attacked by the "Sea Bass" submarine, 6 torpedoes on the starboard side, only one exploded, the other 5 torpedo fuzes did not explode, hit 5 large craters, on August 18, 1944 in the northwest of the Philippine Island of Luzon was attacked by the U.S. Navy "red stone fish." "The trumpet sank.
In December 1943, the "Rushing Eagle" returned from The Truk and was attacked by the submarine "Sailfish", the starboard ship exploded and the crew cabin caught fire, the flight deck collapsed, the front and rear elevators were damaged, and the damage control was carried out to continue sailing, the second attack after the loading of the "Sailfish", a torpedo hit the rear of the starboard, the engine room into the water, the steering gear failed, the propeller was damaged, the flight deck distortion power was also lost, the "Sailfish" was reloaded, and 3 more torpedoes were fired, and 1250 people sank with the ship. Along with them, 20 American prisoners of war died (the American submarine "DuFuyu" was sunk by a Japanese destroyer, surrendered and sent to Japan, and taken to "Okiyak" and "Cloud Eagle" respectively), the first merchant ship modified aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy to be sunk.
"Cloud Eagle" and "Big Eagle" they both belong to the newly established Maritime Escort General Command, specially responsible for the escort of the transport fleet, these 7 "Eagles" are all equipped with this unit, to and from Truk Island, Southwest Pacific, Saipan, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan, in 1944 "Cloud Eagle" was attacked by the "Haddock" submarine near Saipan, injured and repaired for 5 months to participate in the philippine and Singapore route transportation, near the South China Sea Dongsha Islands, was attacked by the Us submarine "Totoaba", Two torpedoes hit the starboard side, hitting the central boiler chamber and the stern rudder nacelle, causing a large explosion and sinking incapacitability, killing 270 people.
After the Sea Hawks fought in Midway in 1942, after Japan began to accelerate the merchant ship refit program, it mobilized two ships, the Argentine Maru and the Brazilian Maru, which were running to Argentina and Brazil at that time, because there were many Japanese Japanese expatriates in that place, a trip of more than 30 days, the "Brazil Maru" had been confirmed to be recruited, but in August 1942 in the process of transporting to Truk Island, it was sunk by submarines.
"Argentine Maru" was completed in 1943, was the smallest tonnage in the Japanese merchant ship transformation aircraft carrier at that time, and the only surviving aircraft carrier at the end of the war, its displacement is 12755 tons, the speed of 21 knots, can carry 900 people, (the merchant ship is modeled on Europe and the United States in the uppermost deck to build a swimming pool, the Japanese were more feudal at that time embarrassed to go down to swim, and finally there is no way to change it into a fishing pool, the old man and old lady fishing by the pool), single-storey hangar five meters high, The side wall of the hangar is made of thin steel plates next to the hangar, the flight deck is 160 meters, the front end width is 13 meters, the middle is 23 meters, the rear end is 16 meters, the tail landing length is more than 30 meters, 8 blocking cables, the ship's trunk is very low, the bow of the flying scissors, the stern of the cruiser, is the most beautiful of all the merchant ship modified aircraft carriers, and the livery is green and grass green camouflage.
In 1944 to Truk Island encountered the United States submarine, fired several torpedoes, did not hit a disaster, and later undertook the escort from the mainland to Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, 10 months unharmed, in January 1945, from Singapore fully loaded, returned to Kure Harbor was warmly welcomed, known as the last escort war, since then dare not go out, has been left in the Japanese inland sea, the United States bombed Kure Harbor in the process of being injured by American bombers, after the war is the only surviving merchant ship modified aircraft carrier, In 1946, 7500 tons of steel were recovered after disintegration.
"Condor" aircraft carrier "Condor" was transformed from Germany's large high-speed passenger ship "Scharnhorst", after World War I Germany obtained some technical information with the support of Japan to build the "Earl Zeppelin" aircraft carrier, after completion has been thrown in the harbor, after the Battle of Midway in 1942, Japan wanted to buy this aircraft carrier, due to the fierce war on the Atlantic, can not drive back to Japan, Germany at that time in Japan had a large high-speed passenger ship "Scharnhorst" (more than 20,000 tons) sold to Japan, "Scharnhorst" The 1934 launch Hitler attended the launch ceremony, 1935 when completed 18184 tons, using the world's most advanced turbine power at that time, speed twenty-one knots, in August 1939 to Kobe after unloading cargo on the way back to Germany, received a telegram in Singapore Anglo-German war, did not dare to go home to return to Kobe Port, the ship was thrown in Japan, the crew took the Trans-Siberian Railway to the topsy-turvy return to China.
Japan at that time did not have the original design data, only the hull structure drawing and outfitting drawing, can only physical measurement and finally generated a drawing to determine the transformation plan, the material is the use of scrap iron re-smelted after the light steel plate and the "Yamato" class iv ship accessories and steel, delivered to the General Command of Maritime Escort in December 1943, naval personnel on the ship after the daily around the boiler, Germany's high-tech Japanese have not seen will not be used, and then replaced by diesel engines, then change the power, and began to change into diesel engines, Entered service in July 1944, the first time the "Nine-Seven" ship attack on the sea found that there were suspicious oil spots oozing from the sea surface, suspected that the submarine was injured or malfunctioned, began to fire depth charges after forming a 50-meter-wide, 1500-meter-long oil trail belt, a month later this happened again, a few days later the same thing happened again, a total of 3 submarines were sunk,
On November 11, 1944, he escorted the oil tanker to Singapore, and after leaving Kyushu Island, passed through Jeju Island to prepare for the direction of The Zhoushan Islands. As a result, the U.S. submarine followed, firing 4 torpedoes to hit its starboard side, directly hit the aviation fuel depot, detonated and fell into the fire, sinking in 30 minutes, killing more than 1100 people and escaping 60 people.
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