However, if aircraft carriers are considered the decisive weapons, it should be obvious that midget submarines will never be released by surface ships close to an enemy fleet. They were not built as carriers, partly because some officers, such as Inoue Shigeyoshi, were very attracted to float planes and partly because it was envisaged that midget submarines could be carried by those ships and released near enough to the enemy battle fleet that the midget submarines could take part in the decisive battle. By 1940-1, the IJN will be short of money and slipways will become available, so I am guessing that the liners will be laid down one to two years late.Ĭhitose, Chiyoda, Mizuho and Nisshin were all built as warships. Thus, if the IJN has enough money, they will lay down their aircraft carriers and tell Nippon Yusen Kaisha to wait. The IJN paid Nippon Yusen Kaisha to design the liners with a double hull and high decks so that they could be easily converted but I am guessing that the cost to the IJN was much less than building two aircraft carriers. I don't believe that Japan built Junyo and Hiyo as a deception. No I didn't transcribe that - it is from one of the historical documents which is transcribed and published on the DFAT website. Reduction to be made in Vote A, there would be an eventual savingĮither great minds think alike, or else fools seldom differ! - I just posted that same data on another thread - but without the formatting. The reduction of any particular vessel enables a consequent But if, as should be the case, it may be assumed that Liability of the personnel borne, which does not mature until The 'Maintenance Costs' make no allowance for the non-effective The averageĪnnual cost of all repairs and of periodic renewal of batteries is (e) Submarines are not subjected to 'Large Repairs'. Repair is, for the most part, conjectural as little or noĮxperience has been gained of these vessels. Represents the aggregate cost of large repair(s) divided by the In the case of a Capital Ship, a second large repair takes (d) Large repairs take place about the ninth year of the ship's (c) This figure represents the capital cost of building the shipĭivided by its 'life'. That Capital Ships would carry 3 aircraft and Cruisers 2 aircraft. Personnel and material chargeable to Vote 4. (assumed life-5 years) plus annual cost of maintenance of (b) The figure for aircraft covers cost of replacing equipment (a) Maintenance covers the pay, victualling and miscellaneousĮxpenses of the personnel, naval stores, fuel and armament storesĬonsumed, and the cost of annual docking and repair.
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