Talk:Community Boats/@comment-43961054-20191006173205

Name: Shokaku

Class: 9

Made by: Blue8Evan (Blue8Evan1)

Desc:

A large Aircraft Carrier with 2 lauchable aircraft and numerous cannons.

Size:

126 blocks long, 20 blocks wide, and 18 blocks tall.

Armor Scheme:

Gold Blocks in front, 1 layer of obsidian and 1 layer of diamond plate base, 1 layer of diamond plate belt armor, concrete deck ,and 1 layer of diamond plate on the tiny superstructure. Very similar armor to the Bismarck but this has less armor on the side in extange for more armor on the bottom.

Features:

1 Fighter Plane and 1 Dive Bomber (front two planes launch, (back two are decoration because I only have 2 pilot seats) 4 thrusters for speed boost, and cannons throughout the ship.

Real Life Lore:

Shōkaku (Japanese: 翔鶴, "Soaring Crane") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class. Along with her sister ship Zuikaku, she took part in several key naval battles during the Pacific War, including the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands before being torpedoed and sunk by a U.S. submarine at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.[2]

(Description from Wikipedia )