The story of IJN Shinano

 

“IJN Shinano was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time. Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, Shinano's partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to an aircraft carrier”.

 

 

So, from writing about the Legendary Yamato to Writing the its Legendary sister ship IJN Shinano and it was meant to be the third Yamato-class Battleship but as said in the paragraph above it was converted into an aircraft carrier to cover the loss of the other carriers which are IJN Junyo, Soryu, Akagi, Kaga and Hiryū (future story on those ships).

The description is below

 

 

                                                IJN Shinano

            Armament: 8 × twin 12.7 cm (5 in) dual-purpose guns

         35 × triple 2.5 cm (1 in) AA guns

            Aircraft carried: 47

            Armor: Waterline belt: 160–400 mm (6.3–15.7 in)

   Flight deck: 75 mm (3 in)

            Speed: 28 knots (52 kmh; 32 mph)

            Length: 265.8 m (872 ft 2 in)

            Beam: 36.3 m (119 ft 1 in)

            Draft: 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)

Displacement: 65,800 tons

 

So, for the Japanese navy the IJN Shinano was the biggest aircraft carrier in the world before it was sunk by the US submarine USS Archerfish.

But IJN Shinano actually didn’t even do its first mission ever, so its kind of sad because the Japanese had made the ship with effort only it to be destroyed be the US Navy but its sad ending will not go in vain it as it had been known as the largest aircraft carrier to be sunk by a submarine and as to how it sank the torpedoes hit it at the starboard side of the ship and the area where the torpedoes hit 

was immediately flooded and the ship listed hard and then they thought by flooding the other side they can fight the list but it wasn’t enough it listed even more and more until it capsized and sink plus all the planes and other stuff falling when the ship listed.

 

 

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