by admin | March 20th, 2010
Ijn Battleship
The IJN Nagato: A Battleship or Heavy cruiser?
I heard many people called it a battleship and others called it a heavy cruiser. what exactly is it?
Laid down on August 28, 1917, launched on November 9, 1919 and commissioned on November 25, 1920, the ship carried a main armament of eight of the new 16 inch main guns mounted two per turret; two superfiring centerline forward and two superfiring centerline aft. Nagato was the name ship of a two-ship battleship class that also included the Mutsu and the ships had a mixture of 15 oil-fired and six mixed-firing boilers that gave them the exceptional speed of 26.7 knots. When built, these ships were the best in the world—they had bigger guns, were better protected and faster than the excellent British Queen Elizabeth class and they were in the water before the similarly-armed and much slower American Colorado class. “Nagato” is the name of an area in Japan.
At the time of their construction, these were the most powerful battleships in the world. In 1934, both ships started major reconstruction that added bulges for added underwater protection (increasing beam from 95 to 113 feet), added a triple bottom, installed new oil-fired boilers and new engines that enabled them to steam at 25 knots, even with the broader beam, added the distinctive Japanese “pagoda” foremast, replaced the guns with newer models with a higher angle of fire and longer range and increased antiaircraft protection. In August 1939, Nagato became flagship of the Combined Fl
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