Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku
Zuikaku (Japanese: 瑞鶴 "Auspicious Crane") was the second and last Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before the beginning of the Pacific War. Her aircraft took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor that formally brought the United States into the war, and she fought in several of the most important naval battles of the war, before being sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Zuikaku at Kobe on 25 September 1941 after commissioning | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Zuikaku |
| Builder | Kawasaki Shipyards |
| Laid down | 25 May 1938 |
| Launched | 27 November 1939 |
| Commissioned | 25 September 1941 |
| Stricken | 26 August 1945 |
| Fate | Sunk by air attack in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement | 29,800 normal tons, 32,000 tons full load |
| Length | 257.5 m (844 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 26 m (85 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 8.9 m (29 ft 2 in) |
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| Speed | 34.5 knots (63.9 km/h) |
| Range | 7,581 mi (6,588 nmi) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) Fuel: 4100 tons |
| Complement | 1,660 |
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Zuikaku was one of six carriers to participate in the Pearl Harbor attack and was the last of the six to be sunk in the war (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Sōryū in the Battle of Midway; Shōkaku in the Battle of the Philippine Sea; and Zuikaku in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.)
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