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The navy decided that Shinano would become a heavily armored support carrier [8] —carrying reserve aircraft, fuel and ordnance in support of other carriers—rather than a fleet carrier. [9] As completed, Shinano had a length of 265.8 meters (872 ft 1 in) overall, a beam of 36.3 meters (119 ft 1 in) and a draft of 10.3
USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine.She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
Most notably, the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was the largest carrier of the war, and the largest object sunk by a submarine when she was hit by four torpedoes from USS Archerfish. [5] Sixteen carriers were lost to the air groups of enemy aircraft carriers, and five were sunk to land based aircraft.
A group of explorers who hunt for ship wrecks for fun got a bit of a surprise on their last adventure. They didn't find a ship wreck. They found a plane wreck and solved a decades-old mystery in ...
All three mid-war designs were sunk in 1944, with Shinano and Taihō being sunk by U.S. submarines, and Hiyō by air attacks. The IJN also attempted to build a number of fleet carriers called the Unryū-class, mostly based on the older Hiryū design rather than the newer Shōkaku or Taihō for the sake of reducing construction cost and time ...
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Sonar images were taken of the wreck found in 200 feet (60 meters of water) near Juniper Island. “With all those pieces of evidence, we're 99% absolutely sure,” Kozak said Monday.
The armament on Shinano was quite different from that of her sister vessels due to her conversion. As the carrier was designed for a support role, significant anti-aircraft weaponry was installed on the vessel: sixteen 12.7 cm (5.0 in) guns, one hundred forty-five 25 mm (0.98 in) anti-aircraft guns, and three hundred and thirty-six 5 in (13 cm ...