#Capital ship slipways ijn free#

The Jun'yЕЌ was begun converting in March -39 a repeat Shokaku would have launched in September -40 if laid down instead. These begun as ocean liners and was converted into what best could be described as mediocre carriers, they were slow, vulnerable even by Japanese standards and with small air complements, better to not convert them and build two repeat Shokaku-class or two TaihЕЌ-class instead. Roadblock #3 and #4 is the Jun'yЕЌ and HiyЕЌ at Mitsubishi #2 and Kawasaki #1 respectively. A TaihЕЌ-class could be laid down instead in November -40 and launched, even following the very slow timetable of the TaihЕЌ, early -42 which then frees up the slipway for another UnryЕ« -class carrier that can be launched a year later and finished summer -44.

So the best idea is to not lay down hull #111. This would delay the Katsuragi by two or three months, more or less unacceptable as that would mean December -44 or January -45 before it's commissioned. Either never lay down it, or finish the hull, laid down in November -40 means it would, using the same timetable as the Musashi, could be launched in January or February -43. Roadblock no.2 is hull #111 at the Kure slipway #1, the fourth unnamed and unfinished Yamato-class battleship. So for the time, materials and slipway space to build the Shinano as a crappy carrier you'd instead get a powerful battleship and a decent carrier, seems like a bargain to me. An UnryЕ« -class carrier could then be laid down and launched a bit over a year later.

#Capital ship slipways ijn free#

So launching and finishing the Shinano as a battleship would free the slipway at around July/August -42 for new construction. The Yamato spent two years and nine months on the slipway and Musashi two years and one month. Roadblock no.1 is the Shinano at Yokusuka slipway #1, it spent four years and four months on the slipway, not to mention that materials for two UnryЕ« -classcarriers (#5002 and #5005) were used to finish the Shinano as a pretty crappy carrier. To me there seems to be four large roadblocks that if removed or changed would help immensely. I'm attaching a very helpful picture someone with a fair bit of knowledge of this compiled. Nagasaki had the Mitsubishi #1 and #2 slipways. Kure Naval Ship yard had the #1 and #2 large enough. In Yokosuka you had the Naval Ship Yard, with slipway #1 and slipway #2 enlarged in early -43. So in essence Japan had six slipways that had the capacity to build capital ships, with one additional enlarged mid-war. The Emperor intervenes, which isn't happening). This is not about not building the Yamato-class and instead building carriers for the resources, that's a non-starter to me, you have to move back into the Russo-Japanese war at least to find a PoD to change that or an act of god (i.e.

So to me it seems more like a problem with slipway space instead of resources. Overall there doesn't seem to be to much problems with resources such as steel, or engines for capital ships, in the last two years Japan built and finished at least nine capital ships with several more building at the time of surrender. In particular the panic that gripped the Japanese command after Midway which meant a fair bit of ordering, canceling and halting ships already in production not to mention that there were a fair bit of bottlenecks on the slipways with ships taking up a lot slipways for much longer then they should have. This thread is something the wiking might post, but instead of about Germany it's about the Japanese capital ship building, to be more precise the organization of it or more accurately the lack of organization.