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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 ...
In December 1943, Yamato was torpedoed which necessitated repairs at Kure, where she was refitted with additional anti-aircraft guns and radar in early 1944. Yamato was dispatched to Okinawa in April 1945, with orders to beach herself and fight until destroyed. On 7 April 1945 she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers.
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.
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
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 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.