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  Shinyo 1943 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	17500
Displacement full, t	20916
Length, m	185.0 pp 189.4 oa
Breadth, m	25.6
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

Air group

Year	Fighters	torpedo bombers
1944	9 A6M2	21 B5N

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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: ?.     

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.