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SHINANO Shipyard: Yokoshuka Keel Laid: 4.5.19440 Launched: 11.11.1944 Entered service: 19.11.1945 Displacement: 64,800 tons (standard) 71,890 tons (full) Complement: 2400 Length: 872.2 ft (266 m) Beam: 119.1 ft (36,3 m) Draught: 33.1 ft (10,3 m) Flight deck: 256x40m Hnagar deck: 163x38,8 m Elevators: 2 (15x14m) Aircraft: 18 (later 47) (can carry up to 100) Speed: 27,7 knots Guns: 16 x 5" (127mm)/40 cal Type 89 12 x 4.7" (120mm)/45 cal 10 Nendo Shiki 145 - 25mm/60 cal MG 22 - 13mm/76 cal MG 12 - 28 barrel AAW rocket launchers Armour: (24033 tons) Main Side Belt 200 mm Deck Armour 80 mm Flight Deck Armour 100 mm Others 25-75 mm Machinery: 12 Kampon boilers. S.H.P. 150,000 = 27,7 kts. 4 shafts.

Shinano, was converted from a the third Yamato-class battleship while under construction at Yokosuka, Japan. She was the largest aircraft carrier built prior to the late 1950s. Hastily completed in November 1944, she was sunk on the 29th of that month by the U.S. Navy submarine Archerfish.

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