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Tamiya 31215 1/700 Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shinano (信濃)

Tamiya 31215 1/700 Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shinano (信濃)
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  • Shinano (信濃), was the largest aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.
  • As the third of the Yamato-class battleships, Shinano's partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to a carrier following Japan's disastrous loss of four fleet carriers at the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. Her conversion was still not finished in November 1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to Kure Naval Base to complete fitting out and transfer a load of 50 Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka rocket-propelled kamikaze flying bombs. Hastily dispatched, she had an inexperienced crew and serious design and construction flaws, lacked adequate pumps and fire-control systems, and did not even carry a single carrier aircraft. She was sunk en route, 10 days after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine Archerfish. Over a thousand sailors and civilians were rescued and 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
Size/Weight: 39 x 15 x 6 cm / 350g
Availability: [In Stock]
Weight: 0.35 kg
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