Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans & Mark Peattie

Author:David C. Evans & Mark Peattie [Evans, David C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473815681
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2015-01-14T21:00:00+00:00

Over the years, commercial yards came to occupy an increasingly important role in the navy’s construction schemes. Of the 1,794,000 tons of naval construction launched in Japan from 1926 to the end of the Pacific War, 1,056,000 tons, or 59 percent, were built in commercial yards, and 737,800 tons, or 41 percent, in navy yards. In the five years of the post-treaty era before the Pacific War, naval construction even more clearly depended on the private sector (table 10-2).25 During the war, this dependence on the private shipbuilding industry for naval construction posed a terrible dilemma for the nation. The navy’s increasing demands on commercial yards (which were, after all, the only source of merchant ship construction) made it extremely difficult to replace merchant ship losses resulting from enemy submarine and air action. Japan simply did not have the shipyard capacity to built both the warships and merchant vessels needed to fight a war with the United States.

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