The radar man searched the charts and could not find the island in the waters. "That's weird, when did a small island pop up here?" He turned on the radar, and something even stranger happened: it turned out to be a small island that moved on its own. He thought, "I've always heard that there are ghost islands in the sea that can move, but I didn't expect that I would really come across one today. But when he took a closer look, he was shocked to find that the moving island was a huge aircraft carrier on the radar screen!
"Report Captain, an enemy aircraft carrier is traveling 60 degrees ahead!" The radar man hurriedly reported this enemy situation to the captain.
"Bite it! Boy, fat meat delivered to your door, great!" The captain of the boat rubbed his hands together in excitement.
The American radar man was right. The moving island really was an aircraft carrier. It had just been secretly built by the Japanese Navy from the Yokosuka Shipyard and named "Shinano". "The aircraft carrier Shinano has a full load displacement of over 70,000 tons, a total power of 110 megawatts, a speed of 27 nautical miles per hour, and carries 21 of the new Meteor bombers, 7 of the Colorado Cloud reconnaissance planes, and 7 of the Colorado Cloud reconnaissance planes. "The ship carried 21 new Meteor bombers, 7 Color Cloud reconnaissance planes, and 20 Gale fighters, making it the largest aircraft carrier in the world at the time. At the moment, it was escorted by three destroyers on its maiden voyage.
For this voyage, the Shinano was kept under strict secrecy, and lights were controlled during the voyage.
"Enemy submarine sighted!" The carrier's officer of the day reported to the captain. "Change course immediately and lose the enemy submarine!" The Japanese carrier's captain ordered.
The Shinano changed course, but little did it know that the U.S. submarine Sailfish had already spotted it and was following it closely. When it entered the torpedo range of the "Sailfish", the "Sailfish" quietly submerged. "The Sailfish was getting closer to the Shinano, and death came closer with the sound of the Shinano's propellers turning.
"Fire torpedoes!" The captain of the submarine "Shooting Fish" ordered decisively.
The six torpedoes hissed like the cores of vipers, and one after the other, they whizzed towards the carrier Shinano. The six consecutive earth-shattering thuds tore several huge cracks in the hull of the Shinano. Cold seawater immediately rushed in. "The carrier's hull tilted, and three Japanese destroyers rushed around the Shinano, but there was nothing they could do. They could only watch as the carrier, which had been on its maiden voyage for 17 hours, slowly sank into the sea and disappeared forever.
After firing its torpedoes, the Sailfish immediately dove into the 400-meter-deep water to hide. The sound of exploding depth charges continued to resonate around it. When the bombs stopped exploding, the "water fish" has returned to the sea without anyone realizing it.