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KAMOI seaplane tender

Kamoi 1933

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
神威 <Kamoi>   New York SB, Camden, USA // Uraga, Tokyo 14/9/1921 8/6/1922 6/1922 // 6/1933 tanker 1943

 

Displacement standard, t

17000

Displacement on trials, t

19240

Length, m

148.9 pp 151.2 oa

Breadth, m

20.4

Draught, m

8.43

No of shafts

2

Machinery

electric motors, 2 Curtiss turbine-generators, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

9000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 2500
Armament

2 x 1 - 140/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 12 seaplanes (E1Y, E2N, E3A, E4N, E5Y)

Complement  

Aircraft facilities: Aircraft based on deck.

Ship project history: Former tanker. At conversion experience with Notoro was used. Differing from the latter seaplanes have been better protected from bad weather at the expense of light hinged platforms over upper deck. Seaplanes flied off from water and landed also there and lifted to  a deck by cargo booms.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Re-rated as flying boat tender in 1940.

 

Kamoi

 

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