Graf Zeppelin

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Trivia

 * Named after Graf (aka Count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who is best known as the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company.
 * Graf Zeppelin has the distinction of being the only aircraft carrier ever launched by Germany in its entire history. Launched in 1938, she was 85% complete when work on her was suspended due to the Kriegsmarine's shifting priorities in the Atlantic that aimed to improve coastal defenses. Unceremoniously towed between different harbors, the carrier remained incomplete owing to rapidly changing advances in carrier aviation technology and doctrine that prevented any work on her from progressing, until all work on the Kriegsmarine's surface ships were halted in 1943. She languished in harbor until she was captured by the Soviet Union as a war prize, and sunk in weapons tests off Poland in 1947.
 * Wreck later discovered by the Polish research ship RV St. Barbara in July 2006, 34 miles north of Władysławowo and in more than 260 ft of water.
 * Currently, Graf Zeppelin is the only shipgirl whose real life counterpart was incomplete.

CG

 * According to comment by illustrator, Graf Zeppelin store her planes in form of metallic cards in her pocket. By drawing those card out and insert into card slot behind elevator of her flight deck, mysterious power would be activated and then those cards can be launch and materialize as planes.