Battleships: Nagato Class

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Brian James
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Nagato Class Dreadnought Battleship IJNS Mutsu pictured fitting out at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal c1921
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Nice one Brian, don't even have that one in any of my books!! ;) Clear, detailed pic, very useful. DFO
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IJNS Nagato schematic...1920.
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The digital art of Dmitiry Mironov...Lead Ship,Super Dreadnought IJNS Nagato.
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Nagato Class Battleship IJNS Mutsu pictured under reconstruction in 1937.
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On display at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima,an original 16.1 inch gun turret from Nagato Class Battleship Mutsu,this is the ship's original turret, removed during her refit in the 1930s.
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Here are some views of a MUTSU turret, raised from the sea bottom. This turret and gun tubes were built for AMAGI or KAGA, and installed during her major refit in the 1930s. Also, one of her 16.1" rifles. ;) DFO
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Nagato Class Dreadnought Battleship Mutsu pictured at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal during her major reconstruction refit on February 20th 1936.
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Seen prior to her major 1933 reconstruction, Nagato Class Dreadnought Battleship Mutsu pictured at Sasebo Naval Arsenal on January 25th 1933....Other than participating in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942, where she did not see any significant combat, Mutsu spent most of the first year of the Pacific War in training. She returned to Japan in early 1943. That June, one of her aft magazines detonated while she was at anchor, sinking the ship with the loss of 1,121 crew and visitors. The IJN investigation into the cause of her loss concluded that it was the work of a disgruntled crew member. The navy dispersed the survivors in an attempt to conceal the sinking in the interest of morale in Japan. Much of the wreck was scrapped after the war, but some artefacts and relics are on display in Japan, and a small portion of the ship remains where it was sunk.
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Two early views of MUTSU.............. ;) DFO
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