No.646 launched as the Izumo Maru 1941

27,500 Nippon Yusen by Kawasaki, Kobe

Proposed Japanese ocean-liner of 27,000 tons and 722 feet long. Ordered late 1938, completed as an aircraft carrier in 1942

Hiyō, launched 1941

She was sunk by a US torpedo in the Battle of the Philippine Sea June 1944

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