Shinyo 1944
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 神鷹 [Shinyo] (ex-Scharnhorst) | 301 | Deschimag, Bremen, Germany // Kure K K | 1933 | 14.12.1934 | 1935 // 15.12.1943 | sunk 17.11.1944 |
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Displacement standard, t |
17500 |
|
Displacement full, t |
20916 |
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Length, m |
185.0 pp 189.4 oa |
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Breadth, m |
25.6 |
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Draught, m |
8.18 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 sets AEG geared steam turbines, 4 Schichau boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
26000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
22 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil |
| Armament |
4 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 10 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 33 aircraft (A6M fighters, D3A, D4Y diving bombers, B5N, B6N torpedo bombers) |
| Electronic equipment | 1-shiki 2-go radar |
|
Complement |
942 |
Aircraft facilities (fd - 4,410m², ha ? m² / ? m³): Flight deck: 180.0x24.5m. There was hangar. There were 2 lifts (12.0x13.0m). Aircraft fuel stowage: ?.
| Year | fighters | torpedo bombers |
| 1944 | 9 A6M2 | 21 B5N |
Project history: Former German passenger liner Scharnhorst (18184BRT, 21kts) of Norddeutsche Lloyd. The Second World War beginning has found a vessel in Kobe where she was laid up. 7.2.1942 Scharnhorst has been transferred to Japanese Government; it was supposed to use her as troop transport. After battle at Midway it have decided to urgently rebuild vessel to aircraft carrier. She was renamed Shinyo and transferred to Kure N Yd, works started in September. Metal, spared for "order No111" fourth of planned Yamato class battleship, was used for conversion.
Construction and arrangement of Shinyo were standard for Japanese escort carriers: a single-level hangar, light flight deck, two elevators, absence of a catapult, and also any armour protection (except for concrete protection of bomb magazines and petrol tanks). However, unlike predecessors, Shinyo" was equipped with bulges that has improved stability and created certain similarity of underwater protection.
Because of necessity of boilers replacement ship actually was operational only in July, 1944.
Ship protection: There was underwater protection (bulges). Magazines and aircraft fuel tanks protected by concrete.
Modernizations: early 1944: + 12 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki
summer 1944: + 8 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki
Naval service: 17.11.1944 at support of convoy to Singapore she was sunk (four torpedo hits) by American submarine Spadefish.
Shinyo 1943
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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