Japanese battleship Nagato
Nagato was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1920. She was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armor and machinery. Nagato was attacked in July 1945 as part of the American campaign to destroy the IJN’s last remaining capital ships. She survived the first test with little damage, but died after being sunk by the second.
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Nagato was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1920. She was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armor and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Nagato was attacked in July 1945 as part of the American campaign to destroy the IJN’s last remaining capital ships, but was only slightly damaged and went on to be the only Japanese battleship to have survived World War II. In mid-1946, the ship was a target for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads. She survived the first test with little damage, but died after being sunk by the second. She had a length of 201. 17 meters between perpendiculars and 215. 8 meters overall. She displaced 32,720 metric tons at standard load and 39,116 metric tons at full load. Her crew consisted of 1,333 officers and enlisted men as built and 1,368 in 1935. Her displacement increased over 7,000 metric tons to 46,690 metric tons at deep load. She could carry 1,600 long tons of coal and 3,400 long tons of fuel oil, giving her a range of 5,500 nautical miles at a speed of 16 knots. The ship exceeded her designed speed of 26. 5 knots during her sea trials, reaching 26. 7 knots at 85,500 shp. Funnel smoke would often choke and blind crewmen on the bridge and in 1922 a fire-control-shaped deflector was installed to direct the exhaust away from the funnel.
It was later eliminated during a refit in 1924 when all of her boilers were replaced by ten-fired Kampon boilers, which had a working pressure of 22cm2 and 300°C. In addition her turbines were replaced with lighter, more modern units, which were lighter, lighter, and more powerful. In 1930, Nagato’s bow was remodeled to reduce the amount of spray produced when steaming into a head sea. This increased her overall length by 1. 59 meters to 217. 39 meters. The ship’s stern was lengthened by 7. 55 meters to improve her speed and her forward superstructure was rebuilt into a pagodamast. In November 1944, the tops of Nagato’s mainmast and funnel were removed to improve the effective arcs of fire for her anti-aircraft guns. Nagato had a beam of 29. 02 meters and a draft of 9. 08 meters. She was designed to produce a total of 80,000 shaft horsepower, using steam provided by 21 Kampon water-tube boilers; 15 of these were oil-fired while the remaining half-dozen consumed a mixture of coal, oil and oil. Her metacentric height at deep load was 2. 35 meters. In 1922, a serpentine funnel was rebuilt in an unsuccessful effort in an attempt to eliminate the funnel smoke.
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