Kaga was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Originally intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty to an
Kaga after her modernization, with her distinctive downward-facing funnel
Kaga as completed, with all three flight decks visible. In fact, the intermediate deck was not a flight deck. It was not comunicating with the upper hangar.
Kaga fitting-out in 1928. This stern view shows the long funnel extending aft below the flight deck, and three 200 mm guns in casemates.
Kaga undergoing post-launch trials off Tateyama, 15 September 1928
Ryūjō was a light aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early 1930s. Small and lightly built to exploit a loophole in the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, she proved to be t
Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
…completed training at Ōmura, Nagasaki then helped escort ships taking army reinforcements from Japan to China. On 15 August, along with Hōshō and Ryūjō, the ship took station in the East China Sea as part of the 3rd Fleet and began supporting Japanese military operations along the central China coast…
Oblique view of Ryūjō at speed, 6 September 1934
Bow view of Ryūjō, 19 June 1933
Ryūjō at anchor in 1936 after reconstruction
Starboard and overhead diagrams of Ryūjō