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| Class | Shinano |
| Type | Fleet Carrier |
| Year | 1944 |
| Crew | 2400 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 244 m (pp) 256 m |
| Beam | 36.3 m |
| Draught | 10.3 m |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 62,000 t |
| Loaded | 66,984 t |
| Maximum | 71,890 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 50 km/h |
| Range | 18,520 km @ 33 km/h |
| Machinery | |
| Shafts | 4 |
| Turbines | 4 x Geared steam 150,000 hp Kampon |
| Boilers | 12 x Kampon |
| Fuel | Oil: 8,900 t |
| Armament | |
| Main | 16 x 127-mm/40 (8 x 2) 12.7cm/40 Type 89 -7° / +90° |
| Anti-Aircraft | 135 x 25-mm (35 x 3, 40 x 1) 25mm/60 Type 96 |
| AA Weapons | 12-cm AA Rocket (12 x 28) |
| Armor | |
| Belt | 160 - 206 mm |
| Bulkhead | 76 - 231 mm |
| Deck | 99 - 191 mm |
| Hangar | 191 mm |
| Sensors | |
| Radar | Type 13 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft | 47-70 |
| Production | |
| Built | 1 |
| Total | 1 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
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Shinano † | Yokosuka K K | 04/05/1940 | 08/10/1944 | 19/11/1944 | 29/11/1944 | † | Loss by submarine |