Akagi (1925) — Japanese Aircraft Carrier Model, 30 in
Akagi (1925) — Japanese Aircraft Carrier Model, 30 in
How big is it?
Length about 76 cm / 30.0 in. Drawn to scale; the model outline is a simplified shape.
Model details
- Size
- 30 in / 76 cm
- Construction
- Handcrafted
- Condition
- Fully assembled, ready to display
- Display
- Wooden base with brass nameplate
- Collection
- Battle Ship Models
- Item no.
- CM452
The flagship of the Pearl Harbor strike force, at 30 inches.
Specification
- 30 inches
- Handcrafted hull and superstructure
- Flight deck with markings and deck aircraft
- Port-side island, funnel, masts and boats
- Mounted on a display base with nameplate
- Fully assembled
The ship
Akagi began as a battlecruiser hull, left incomplete when the Washington Naval Treaty banned her type, and was converted to a carrier rather than scrapped — which is why she is unusually long and fast for her generation.
She is one of very few carriers ever built with the island on the port side. Japanese designers reasoned that if two carriers operated together with islands on opposite sides, their landing patterns would not conflict. In practice pilots found it disorienting and the idea was abandoned.
On 7 December 1941 Admiral Nagumo flew his flag from her, and the signal to attack Pearl Harbor was sent from her bridge. At Midway on 5 June 1942, a single American dive bomber hit put her out of action. She was scuttled by her own destroyers.