WI: Carrier Amagi survived Earthquake?

[Ming777]

What if the hull of the Amagi, which was being converted into a carrier, was not written off after the Great Kanto quake?

How might keeping Kaga as a battleship (no longer needed to replace Amagi) have any real differences to how the Pacific War turned out?

 

[sharlin]

The Kaga would still have been scrapped as per treaty stipulation, she was only drafted in to be converted to a carrier and saved from being turned into razor blades because of the damage to the Amagi which rendered her a total constructive loss.

 

[David S Poepoe]

What if the hull of the Amagi, which was being converted into a carrier, was not written off after the Great Kanto quake?

How might keeping Kaga as a battleship (no longer needed to replace Amagi) have any real differences to how the Pacific War turned out?

Japan defeated sooner. Let's face it their battleships didn't do very much but present themselves as targets. They got way more use out of their carriers.

 

[RamscoopRaider]

Japan defeated sooner. Let's face it their battleships didn't do very much but present themselves as targets. They got way more use out of their carriers.

The OP meant that Kaga gets built as a battleship and Amagi becomes the second Japanese fleet carrier and IMO the Amagi/Akagi were better carriers than Kaga, at the very least Kaga was 3 knots slower and had worse deck armor

 

[Matt Wiser]

Kaga would've shared the fate of her sister ship, Tosa. Sunk as gunnery target.

 

[David S Poepoe]

The OP meant that Kaga gets built as a battleship and Amagi becomes the second Japanese fleet carrier and IMO the Amagi/Akagi were better carriers than Kaga, at the very least Kaga was 3 knots slower and had worse deck armor

The Kaga was slated to be scrapped under the terms of the WNT - look it up. As Matt points out with the Amagi surviving the earthquake the Kaga wouldn't be completed. There is clearly a problem with the OP if both ships are to exist.

 

[RamscoopRaider]

The Kaga was slated to be scrapped under the terms of the WNT - look it up. As Matt points out with the Amagi surviving the earthquake the Kaga wouldn't be completed. There is clearly a problem with the OP if both ships are to exist.

I knew that, OP didn't but I did

However your comment implied that you thought Kaga would just be built as a battleship, no Amagi as a carrier, rather than Kaga being replaced as a carrier by the slightly better at the job Amagi

Japan defeated sooner. Let's face it their battleships didn't do very much but present themselves as targets. They got way more use out of their carriers.

 

[David S Poepoe]

I knew that, OP didn't but I did

However your comment implied that you thought Kaga would just be built as a battleship, no Amagi as a carrier, rather than Kaga being replaced as a carrier by the slightly better at the job Amagi

Well, the OP clearly says:

"How might keeping Kaga as a battleship (no longer needed to replace Amagi) have any real differences to how the Pacific War turned out?"

So the Kaga is completed as a battleship! The Japanese would be in a clear violation of the Washington Naval Treaty and this would start another arms race among the Great Powers.