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Wakamiya (Japanese:若宮丸, later 若宮艦) was a seaplane carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the first Japanese aircraft carrier. She was converted from a transport ship into a seaplane carrier and commissioned in August 1914. She was equipped with four Japanese-built French Maurice Farman seaplanes (motorized with Renault 70HP engines). In September 1914, she conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ...
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Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Early career Wakamiya was initially a Russian freighter ship named Lethington, built by Duncan in Port Glasgow, United Kingdom, laid down in 1900 and launched September 21, 1900. She was captured on a voyage from Cardiff to Vladivostok during the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 by a Japanese torpedo boat near Okinoshima. She was acquired by the Japanese government, renamed Wakamiya-Maru, and from 1907 was managed as a transport ship by NYK.[1] September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In 1913 she was transferred to the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted to a seaplane carrier, being completed on August 17, 1914. She was a 7,720-ton ship, with a complement of 234. She had two seaplanes on deck and two in reserve. They could be lowered onto the water with a crane, from where they would take off, and then retrieved from the water once their mission was completed. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Siege of Tsingtao From September 5, 1914, she conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids[2] from Kiaochow Bay off Tsingtao. Her seaplanes bombarded German-held land targets (communication centers and command centers) in the Tsingtao peninsula of Shandong province and ships in Qiaozhou Bay from September to November 6, 1914, during the Siege of Tsingtao. September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Jiaozhou Bay was a 552km² German colony which existed from 1898 to 1914. ...
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November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Combatants Empire of Japan United Kingdom German Empire Austria-Hungary Commanders Sadakichi Kato Mitsuomi Kamio Alfred Meyer-Waldeck Strength Japan: 50,000 United Kingdom:1,500 4,000 Casualties 1,455 200 The Siege of Tsingtao was the attack on the German-controlled port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China...
British officers also serving in the Battle of Tsingtao commented on the operations of the Wakamiya:
 Japanese Maurice Farman seaplane, 1914. "Daily reconnaissances, weather permitting, were made by the Japanese seaplanes, working from the seaplane mother ship. They continued to bring valuable information throughout the siege. The mother ship was fitted with a couple of derricks for hoisting them in and out. During these reconnaissances they were constantly fired at by the German guns mostly with shrapnel, but were never hit. The Japanese airmen usually carried bombs for dropping on the enemy positions." Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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— Report by Lieut. Commanders G.S.F. Nash and G. Gipps, HMS Triumph, 18th November 1914.[3] On September 30, Wakamiya struck a German mine and had to be repaired for a week. On this occasion, her seaplanes were transferred on land at Shazikou (沙子口海岸), from where they accomplished further scouting and attack missions: is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
 Two of Wakamiya's Maurice Farman seaplanes stationed on land in Tsingtao after September 30th, 1914. "The seaplane corps and three Henry Farman 100 h.p. seaplanes were, in consequence of the damage done to the mother ship, landed at the Base already established at Laoshan Harbour (to the West of the Bay so nearer to Tsingtao), and this proved eminently satisfactory." Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 463 pixelsFull resolution (1250 × 723 pixel, file size: 771 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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— Report by Lieut. Commanders G.S.F. Nash and G. Gipps of the HMS Triumph, 18th November 1914.[4] Altogether, the seaplanes made 49 attacks, dropping 190 bombs on German defenses until the German surrender on November 7. According to the British Naval Attaché to Tokyo, Captain Hon. Hubert Brand, who had been stationed for three months on Imperial Japanese Navy warships throughout the battle, the bombs used by the seaplanes were about equivalent to 12 pdr. shells.[5] is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Later developments Wakamiya was modified as a regular aircraft carrier with a launch platform on the foredeck in April 1920 (when she was renamed Wakamiya-kan 若宮艦). She accomplished in June 1920 the first Japanese take-off from an aircraft carrier. It is thought she had a pioneering role in developing aircraft carrier techniques for the Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho,[6] the first purpose-built aircraft carrier in the world.[7] This page refers to the Japanese aircraft carrier. ...
She was used as a trials ship after 1924, stricken April 1, 1931 and later scrapped. is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The second seaplane carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the 1920 Notoro.
Notes December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ...
Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
References - "Sabre et pinceau", Christian Polak, Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française au Japon.
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