Jun'yō (隼鷹, "Peregrine Falcon")[1] was a Hiyō -class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru (橿原丸), but was purchased by the IJN in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier.

The two Hiyō-class aircraft carriers (飛鷹型航空母艦, Hiyō-gata kōkūbokan) were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Both ships of the class, Hiyō and Jun'yō, were originally laid down as luxury passenger liners before being acquired by the IJN for conversion to aircraft carriers in 1941.

2022年5月21日 · Jun’yō (隼鷹, “Peregrine Falcon”) and Hiyō (飛鷹, “Flying Hawk”) were two Hiyō-class aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). They were started before the war as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru and Izumo Maru, respectively, but both were purchased by the IJN in 1941 while still under construction.

2020年4月3日 · Available supported fixed-wing / rotary-wing aircraft featured in the design of IJN Junyo. Between 42 and 48 combat aircraft carried. Force made up of fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers.

Commissioned May 3, 1942 in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Initially, Junyō was classified as Tokusetsu Kokubokan (auxiliary aircraft carrier) with a smaller compliment of 53 aircraft including 21 x A5M4 Claude plus 17 x B5N2 Kate .

IJN Junyo (CVL-1942) Return to Japanese Navy page: The Japanese had the foresight to take a 60 percent stake in ten fast passenger and cargo liners all of a size that had had their plans altered to make them easily convertible to aircraft carriers.

Presence (at first time in the IJN) of island pooled with a funnel became feature of architecture of Junyo class. Besides, latter had a declination 25° to the starboard for the best spreader of gases from a flight deck.