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The museum opened on April 23, 2005. It is nicknamed the Yamato Museum due to the display in the lobby of a 1/10 scale model of the battleship Yamato, [1] the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet in World War II. It was sunk south of the Japanese island of Kyushu in 1945. The museum is located where the battleship was completed. [1]
The repair ship Akashi effected temporary repairs, [22] and Yamato departed on 10 January 1944 for Kure. [25] Yamato and Musashi anchored in the waters off of the Truk Islands in 1943. On 16 January Yamato arrived at Kure for repairs of the torpedo damage and was dry-docked until 3 February. [22]
Yamato ' s port-side anti-aircraft armament as depicted on the model of the ship at the 'Yamato Museum' in Kure. The Yamato-class battleships had primary armaments consisting of three 3-gun turrets mounting 46 cm (18.1 in)/45 caliber Type 94 naval guns – the largest guns ever fitted to a warship, [6] although they were officially designated ...
Kure developed into one of the largest shipbuilding facilities in the Empire of Japan, capable of working with the largest vessels. The Arsenal included a major steel works (built with British assistance), and also facilities for producing naval artillery and projectiles. The battleships Yamato and Nagato were designed and constructed at Kure.
The Kii-class battleship was a planned class of four fast battleships to be built during the 1920s. Only two of the ships received names. They were intended to reinforce Japan's "Eight-Eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced the reinitiation of a major naval construction program in 1919. [13]
The Allied attacks on Kure and the inland sea left Nagato at Yokosuka as the only remaining operational capital ship in Japan's inventory. The destruction of the battleships and heavy cruisers at Kure was seen by British official historian Stephen Roskill as avenging the losses suffered by the United States at Pearl Harbor. [10]
Feb. 19—The full recovery of visitor arrivals from Japan, one of Hawaii's most coveted source markets, continues to fall short, and a complete return to 2019 levels could take until 2026. The ...
The 46 cm (18.1 in) 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval rifle was a wire-wound gun.Mounted in three 3-gun turrets (nine per ship), they served as the main armament of the two Yamato-class battleships that were in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.