Shinano (Japanese: 信濃; named after the ancient Shinano Province) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time.

The Imperial Japanese Fleet Carrier Shinano was the only true armoured carrier and largest warship of the IJN after the Yamato class battleship, herself being based on the third of the class. She was lost …

Oct 20, 2025 · How the U.S. sub Archerfish sank the Japanese supercarrier Shinano, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine, exploiting a fatal flaw in its rushed design.

This is the extraordinary story of how a single US submarine, skippered by a then unremarkable captain sank a Japanese supercarrier single-handed, instantly becoming the most successful US...

Aug 21, 2024 · Summary and Key Points: The Imperial Japanese Navy’s carrier Shinano was an ill-fated warship, originally intended as a battleship but converted into an aircraft carrier during World War II.

Mar 19, 2025 · The Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, converted from a Yamato-class battleship after Japan’s Midway losses, became the largest carrier built in World War II. Despite formidable size, …

Dec 14, 2022 · One was IJN Shinano, a Yamato -class ship that was converted into an aircraft carrier halfway through her construction, due to the heavy losses the Japanese fleet sustained during the …

The story of how the U.S. Navy torpedoed the Japanese Shinano carrier, the largest warship in history to be sunk by a submarine.

Underwater protection of Shinano was identical to applied on Yamato. It included external bulges and three raked longitudinal bulkheads, first from which by an upper edge reached 200mm thickness.

The Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano would have been equipped with an air group of 40-50 planes (the initial scheme was revised during conversion), stowed forward in the hangar, but the bulk of the …