Name This...(449)

[brady]

???

[Fishu]

Ummm.. Ark Royal?

[HFMudd]

Would this be the Junyo?  Probably waiting at Sasebo, Japan circa 1945.

[DiabloTX]

The painted white stripes on the aft end of the flight deck means its definitely Japanese but it looks like the Taiho after she got torpedoed.

[brady]

It is, Shinano.

[DiabloTX]

Brady, I have to disagree with you on this one.  The aft end of the CV in your photo is too closed in to be the Shinano.  The flight deck of the Shinano was so high from the main deck that the fantail was actually more "open" to the sea because, as you know, the Shinano was a converted Yamato-class BB.  The Taiho on the other hand had a nearly closed off fantail just like the one in your photo.  Here are a couple of side drawings of each CV and you can see from the fantail that the Taiho resemble the CV in your pic.  !!

[DiabloTX]

Here is Taiho:

[DiabloTX]

Here is Shinano:

[MiloMorai]

Here is a rear quarter sketch of the IJN Taiho

http://www.geocities.com/japanesecarriers/Taiho/Scene_Taiho.jpg

of the IJN Shinano

http://www.warships1.com/JAPcv07_Shinano_art.jpg
http://www.strategyplanet.com/commandos/shinano.html

[Rasker]

I didnt know Shinano lived long enough to be photographed after Archerfish torped her

[DiabloTX]

[frank3]

what exactly means "punt"?

[FDutchmn]

that there is the Jun'yo, passenger liner converted aircraft carrier, going under a series of yawing tests to see how she does when she take on water, May 3, 1944, Seto Inland Sea.  Photograph shows her tilting to the starboard 7.8 degrees. [edit: this was before she was torpedoed by American submarines Sea Devil and Red Fish, December that year.  She called port at Sasebo for repairs after the attack.]

Source: ISBN4-7689-0454-7 C0372  Warship of Japan Volume 4 Aircraft Carriers II, 1989, Magazine Maru Editorial Department, Page 10.