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Mutsu (Japanese: 陸奥, named after the ancient Mutsu Province) was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I. In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake .
Nearby ships were able to rescue 353 survivors from the 1,474 crew members and visitors aboard Mutsu, meaning that 1,121 men were killed in the explosion. To avert the potential damage to morale from the loss of a battleship, Mutsu ' s loss was declared a state secret. To further prevent rumors from spreading, many survivors were reassigned to ...
The 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun is a 41-centimeter (16.1 in) breech-loading naval gun designed during World War I for the Imperial Japanese Navy.It served as the primary armament in the Nagato-class dreadnoughts completed after the end of the war and in coast defense mountings.
Japanese battleship Shikishima. The Shikishima class (敷島型戦艦, Shikishima-gata senkan) was designed as a more powerful version of the Royal Navy's Majestic-class battleship. [30] The ships were also assigned to the 1st Fleet before the Russo–Japanese War, were present at the Battle of Port Arthur and were slightly damaged during the ...
Mutsu, a Nagato-class dreadnought battleship, at anchor, shortly after completion.. The first serious attempt to build an "Eight-Eight Fleet" came in 1910, when the Naval General Staff proposed a building program of eight battleships and eight armored cruisers (by that time, they would inevitably become battlecruisers).
Sailors from the battleship USS Iowa, Underwater Demolition Team 18, [44] and the high-speed transport USS Horace A. Bass [45] secured the battleship on 30 August after the occupation began and Captain Thomas J Flynn, executive officer of the Iowa, assumed command. By the time the war ended, Nagato was the only Japanese battleship still afloat ...
Battleship Mutsu in 1940 The IJN developed a strategy of "gradual attrition" to weaken the US fleet prior to its arrival in the western Pacific. [ 23 ] Under this plan, Japan would employ submarines, land-based bombers, and light surface forces to whittle down the approaching US fleet to a size that the Japanese could defeat in a fleet-versus ...
Japanese battleship Musashi; Japanese battleship Mutsu; N. Japanese battleship Nagato; Y. Japanese battleship Yamashiro; Japanese battleship Yamato