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Name: | Shōkaku |
Namesake: | Japanese: しょうかく Kanji: 翔鶴 ("Soaring Crane") |
Laid down: | 12 December 1937 |
Launched: | 1 June 1939 |
Commissioned: | 8 August 1941 |
Fate: | Sunk by American submarineUSS Cavalla on 19 June 1944 |
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Class and type: | Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier |
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Length: | 257.5 m (844 ft 10 in) |
Beam: | 26 m (85 ft 4 in) |
Draft: | 8.8 m (28 ft 10 in) |
Installed power: | 160,000 shp (120,000 kW) |
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Speed: | 34.2 kn (63.3 km/h; 39.4 mph) |
Range: | 9,700 nmi (18,000 km; 11,200 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement: | 1,660 |
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Shōkaku (Japanese: 翔鶴 "Soaring Crane") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class. Along with her sister ship Zuikaku, she took part in several key naval battles during the Pacific War, including the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands before being torpedoed and sunk by a U.S. submarine at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.[2]
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