Shipbucket

Spreading the underwater-hull treatement.

IJN Taiho as she looked when commissioned in March 1944:


IJN Taiho as she looked on june 19th 1944 during Operation A-Go, better known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea.


Updated drawings can be found (with full description) in the first page too.

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Amazing work!

Really fantastic work. The proper hull red really makes these ships look great.

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Simply superb. What a monster.

It's interesting to note the lack of electronics compared to US ships of the same period.

Nice work, BB.

What is it about Japanese ships and their curved decks?

Not to mention a distinct lack of aircraft elevators (only one up forward and one aft) compared to equivalent American carriers which had three aircraft elevators, except for the Lexington-class which were converted from battlecruiser hulls and the Independence-class CVLs, which were converted from Cleveland-class CLs...

Nice work!

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Weight-saving measures.
Reducing the freeboard where not needed they reduced also the quantity of steel needed on specific parts of the hull,and doing so through curved sloping decks eliminated the presence of "breaks" that were widely used on older warships, which were weak spots.
More or less.
The two elevators were chosen over three because Taiho had an armoured flight deck.

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Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

So what? USS Midway (CV-41) had an armored flight deck and managed three (admittedly one was a deck-edge model) elevators... of course, she and her two sisters were also quite a bit larger than HIJMS Taiho.