IJN Shōkaku

Sunk

Type	Aircraft carrier
Class	Shōkaku
War	Second World War
Main guns	8 × twin 12.7 cm (5 in) DP guns

Attacked Pearl Harbor. Her aircraft bombed Enterprise at the Eastern Solomons. At Santa Cruz Hornet's dive bombers hit her with several bombs and put her out of action for nine months. Sunk by a US submarine in the Philippine Sea in 1944.

日本海軍航空母艦翔鶴型「翔鶴」完成直後の写真。(Japanese Navy Aircraft Carrier Shokaku type "Shokaku" immediately after completion photo) Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

8 × twin 12.7 cm (5 in) DP guns
12 × triple 25 mm (1 in) AA guns

Armour

Waterline belt: 46–165 mm (1.8–6.5 in)
Deck: 65–132 mm (2.6–5.2 in)

Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Laid down	12 December 1937
Launched	1 June 1939
Commissioned	8 August 1941
Displacement	25,675 long tons (26,087 t) (standard) 32,105 long tons (32,620 t) (full load)
Length	257.5 m (844 ft 10 in)
Speed	34.2 kn (63.3 km/h; 39.4 mph)
Complement	1,660