Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 4 May 1940 |
| Launched: | 8 October 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 19 November 1944 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 29 November 1944 by the submarine Archerfish |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 71,890 tons |
| Length: | 872.9 ft (266.1 m) |
| Beam: | 119 ft (36.3 m) waterline 131.3 ft (40 m) flight deck |
| Draught: | 32.9 ft (10 m) |
| Propulsion: | 12 Kanpon oil-fired boilers, geared steam turbines, 4 screws, 153,000 hp (114 MW) |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range: | 7,200 nautical miles at 16 knots (13,300 km at 30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 2,400 |
| Armament: | Sixteen 4 inch (100 mm) 40-caliber guns, twelve 4.7 inch (120 mm) 45-caliber guns, 145 25 mm 60-caliber anti-aircraft guns, twelve 28-barreled 5 inch (100 mm) AA rocket launchers |
| Armor: | 5 inch (100 mm) side belt, 4 inch (100 mm) deck, 3.1 inch (79 mm) flight deck, light armor over various important parts |
| Aircraft: | 50 (maximum 100) |
Shinano (信濃) was an aircraft carrier operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. She was actually laid down as the third Yamato class battleship, but following the losses in the Battle of Midway, was completed with a flight deck, making her the largest carrier of her era. In fact, the Shinano was the largest aircraft carrier (by tonnage) until the commissioning of the supercarrier USS Forrestal, eleven years later. Shinano was intended to be used as a carrier-support vessel, owing to her extensive machine shops and fuel capacity.
She was sunk on November 29, 1944 by four torpedoes launched from the submarine USS Archerfish while she was transferred from Yokosuka to Kure - the hull compartmentation had not yet been installed.
Like many other Japanese ships, including Yamato, it took its name from a Japanese province. Shinano is in present-day Nagano Prefecture. Template:Yamato class battleshipja:信濃 (空母)