Japanese cruiser Ibuki (1943)

	Ibuki at anchor in Sasebo, September 1945
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Ibuki
Namesake	Mount Ibuki
Ordered	November 1941
Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure
Laid down	24 April 1942
Launched	21 May 1943
Fate	Scrapped, 22 November 1946
General characteristics (1944)
Type	Light aircraft carrier
Displacement	14,800 t (14,600 long tons)
Length	200.6 m (658 ft 2 in)
Beam	21.2 m (69 ft 7 in)
Draft	6.31 m (20 ft 8 in)
Installed power	4 × three-drum boilers; 72,000 shp (54,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbine sets;
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	1,015
Sensors and ; processing systems	1 × Type 2, Mark 2, Model 1 early-warning radar
Armament	2 × twin 8 cm (3 in) dual-purpose guns; 16 × triple 2.5 cm (1 in) AA guns; 4 × 28-tube 12 cm (4.7 in) rocket launchers;
Armor	Waterline belt: 100–140 mm (3.9–5.5 in); Deck: 35–60 mm (1.4–2.4 in); Bulkheads: 95–140 mm (3.7–5.5 in);
Aircraft carried	27 aircraft

The Japanese cruiser Ibuki (伊吹) was a heavy cruiser built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. The lead ship of her class of two ships, she was ordered to be converted into a light aircraft carrier in 1943 before completion to help replace the aircraft carriers sunk during the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. The conversion was delayed and finally stopped in March 1945 in order to concentrate on building small submarines. Ibuki was scrapped in the Sasebo Naval Arsenal beginning in 1946.

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