Shōhō (Japanese: 祥鳳, "Auspicious Phoenix" or "Happy Phoenix") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki ( Japanese : 剣埼, "Sword Cape") in the late 1930s, she was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed.

The Zuihō class (瑞鳳型), also known as the Shōhō class (祥鳳型), consisted of two aircraft carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before World War II, the Zuihō and Shōhō. Both ships were originally built as submarine tenders , but were subsequently converted into carriers.

2010年2月6日 · IJN Shoho: Tabular Record of Movement. The Japanese Naval Staff includes in the shipbuilding programmes three large, fast submarine tenders, later named TAIGEI, TSURUGISAKI and TAKASAKI, which would accompany the submarine flotillas to sea and direct operations. Yokosuka.

2022年3月24日 · IJN Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier lost in WW2, a considerable morale boost for the US. As customary for the Japanese, the announcement was made much later, kept hidden for a long time, survivors being spread into other crews and not sent home.

She was laid down in Dec 1934, launched in June 1935 and then completed as a submarine tender Jan 1939. She was then converted in 1941 as a light carrier and entered service in Jan …

Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier lost during the Pacific War. In total, 834 of Shoho's crew died during the attack, went down with the carrier or drown while awaiting rescue. When Shoho sank, at least 30 aircraft were lost aboard the carrier.

Akagi, Kaga, Zuikaku...so on and so forth. The light carriers tend to fall a...

2018年11月18日 · The world's first purpose-built aicraft carrier and first of its kind in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Hōshō helped creating IJN aviation, and served for 20 years, through the Japanese-China War and WW2 pacific campaign.

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) light carrier Shoho is one of two ships built to Zuiho-class standards (the other being the main ship, Zuiho, described elsewhere on this page). The pair were self-formed from existing seaplane tender hulls to meet IJN requirements in the mid-1930s.

Hōshō (鳳翔, literally "phoenix flying") was the world's first commissioned ship that was built as an aircraft carrier, [Note 1] and the first aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).