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Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano : ウィキペディア英語版 | Japanese aircraft carrier 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 s, ''Shinano''s partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to a carrier following Japan's disastrous loss of four fleet carriers at the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. Her conversion was still not finished in November 1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to Kure Naval Base to complete fitting out and transfer a load of 50 Yokosuka MXY7 ''Ohka'' rocket-propelled ''kamikaze'' flying bombs. Hastily dispatched, she had an inexperienced crew and serious design and construction flaws, lacked adequate pumps and fire-control systems, and did not even carry a single carrier aircraft. She was sunk en route, 10 days after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine . Over a thousand sailors and civilians were rescued and 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.〔Enright & Ryan, p. xiv〕 ==Design and description== One of two additional ''Yamato''-class battleships ordered as part of the 4th Naval Armaments Supplement Program of 1939,〔Enright & Ryan, p. 2〕 ''Shinano'' was named after the old province of Shinano, following the Japanese ship-naming conventions for battleships.〔Silverstone, p. 336〕 She was laid down on 4 May 1940 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to a modified ''Yamato''-class design: her armor would be thinner than that of the earlier ships, as it had proved to be thicker than it needed to be for the desired level of protection, and her heavy anti-aircraft (AA) guns would be the new 65-caliber 10 cm Type 98 dual-purpose gun, as it had superior ballistic characteristics and a higher rate of fire than the 40-caliber 12.7 cm Type 89 guns used by her half-sisters.〔Garzke & Dulin, pp. 74–75〕
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