Shōhō (祥鳳, "Auspicious Phoenix" or "Happy Phoenix") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki in the late 1930s, she was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed. Completed in early 1942, the ship supported the invasion forces in Operation MO, the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea, and was sunk by American carrier aircraft on her first combat operation during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May. Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II.
Length of the ship miniature: 5.1cm
Dimension of the clear acrylic box: 6cm×2cm×2cm
Each ship of the same class has individually different info label at the bottom of the box. Each ship also comes with a 1.5cm×0.3cm sticker that players can put on the box to help tabletop wargaming.
Please note: Certain details of the ship miniature you receive could be different from those shown in the website pictures, such as orientation of guns/catapult/torpedo tubes, location of ship-born aircrafts, etc.
