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| Class | Shokaku |
| Type | Fleet Carrier |
| Year | 1941 |
| Crew | 1660 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 236.1 m (pp) 250 m |
| Beam | 26 m |
| Draught | 8.9 m |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 25,675 t |
| Loaded | 29,330 t |
| Maximum | 32,105 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 63 km/h |
| Range | 17,964 km @ 33 km/h |
| Machinery | |
| Shafts | 4 |
| Turbines | 4 x Geared steam 160,000 hp Kampon |
| Boilers | 8 x Kampon |
| Fuel | Oil: 4,100 t |
| Armament | |
| Main | 16 x 127-mm/40 (8 x 2) 12.7cm/40 Type 89 -7° / +90° |
| Anti-Aircraft | 36 x 25-mm (12 x 3) 25mm/60 Type 96 96 x 25-mm (18 x 3, 5 x 2, 32 x 1) 25mm/60 Type 96 [1944] |
| AA Weapons | 12-cm AA Rocket (6 x 28) [1944] |
| Armor | |
| Belt | 46 - 165 mm |
| Deck | 99 - 130 mm |
| Sensors | |
| Radar | Type 21 Type 13 |
| Sonar | Type 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft | 72-84 |
| Production | |
| Built | 2 |
| Total | 2 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
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Shokaku † | Yokosuka Navy | 12/12/1937 | 01/06/1939 | 08/08/1941 | 19/06/1944 | † | Loss by submarine | |
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Zuikaku † | Kawasaki | 25/05/1938 | 27/11/1939 | 25/09/1941 | 25/10/1944 | † | Loss by aircraft |