Talk:Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru

"In addition,
she could carry 27 Daihatsu class landing crafts." - the plural of "craft" in this context is "craft." Fnj2 (talk) 07:02, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Not an aircraft carrier
The Japanese, as far as I can see, called the Akitsu Maru and her sister "amphibious landing ships with flight decks" and did not regard them as aircraft carriers, despite their superficial resemblance. Wikipedia defines an aircraft carrier as "a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase", but this articles states that this ship was unable to recover aircraft.

Even if one were to regard the ship as an aircraft carrier, it certainly is not an escort carrier, as stated in the article. This ship has no convoy protection abilities whatsoever. I propose changing the title to "Japanese amphibious landing ship Akitsu Maru". Cwelgo (talk) 17:12, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The aircraft themselves are the "protection abilities." HammerFilmFan (talk) 14:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * The aircraft are not "convoy protection abilities" if they cannot land again. If you can show me evidence that the Japanese used her as an escort carrier, and not as an amphibious landing ship, I'll back off; otherwise I continue to propose changing the title. Cwelgo (talk) 17:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * The Kokusai Ki-76 STOL aircraft carried aboard were equipped with depth charges and operated as ASW patrollers; sources mention they were modified with tailhooks for the purpose, so it is reasonable to assume they could land on board, although I don't imagine it was a lot of fun. The ship also operated Kayaba Ka-1 ASW autogyros. So while the ship's capabilities were very limited she could function as a kind of ersatz escort carrier. 99.249.15.40 (talk) 08:55, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Sister ship
"Contrary to many secondary sources, the Nigitsu Maru was not fitted with a flight deck."

One of those secondary sources, it would seem, is the Wikipedia article on the Nigitsu Maru.Ealtram (talk) 16:22, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * And your source is?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:41, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think they are pointing out in the lead of this article there is that exact phrase. I don't know enough about either ship to say whether it is true or not. Llammakey (talk) 18:44, 1 April 2019 (UTC)