The Japanese battleship Nagato was a steel-hulled vessel 708 feet in length overall, with a 95-foot beam and a 30-foot draft. Wysyłka po 16 stycznia 2017Super Drawings in 3D 51 The Japanese Battleship Nagato Dmitry Mironov • 80 pages• 124 renders• Double sheet B2 with scale drawings• Matte coated paper• Format (sizes): A4 Nagato displaced 38,500 tons standard. This was also made up of three 25 mm layers of HTSThe new 41 cm turrets installed during their reconstruction were more heavily armored than the original ones. Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). At that time, she was the first ship in the world armed with 16.1 inch (410-mm) guns. Between 1934-1936, Nagato was reconstructed: torpedo bulges were added and the superstructure was raised and modified. I hope she gets a fair shake this time around.Good read..enjoyed all the pictures u and ReiAyanami put inWhat a Beauty I feel sad that this wonderful ship was not preserved but instead destroyed in a nuclear test blast.....oh why :CSo a pretty and powerful ship Its sad that it met such a horrible fate :( I rather use this ship as a memorial But i guess not D:Had these pics/story and thought they would fit in here.A little background first tho, My Uncle served in the army during the Korean War and while he was over there he was wounded and sent to Japan to recover, and while he was recoving he ended up falling in love with his nurse. [LTNY] All of the remaining 14-centimeter guns had their elevation increased to +35 degrees which increased their range to 20,000 meters (22,000 yd). Hull was fully riveted (each took more than 3 732 000 rivets! The hull was divided inside into five decks. very good ship that served the ijn and even survived the war.Today the Yamato is probably the most known ship in the public's mind but due to the secrecy in building the ship if you asked the Japanese public in the 1940s what their country's best ship is, most would have still answered the Nagato even while the Yamato was in service.I couldnt agree more with you Rei...the Pagoda superstructures are what make Japanese BBs memorable :Smile_ohmy: and yeah on that bow :Smile_sceptic: . Nagato's hull was reportedly divided into 560 separate watertight compartments; its rated complement was 1,333 men.Nagato was the scene of Yamamoto and his staff as many meetings by plans to attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor were first broached, discussed, and refined. It was named after the province.In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake.The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. The Nagato-class battleships (長門型戦艦, Nagato-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I, although they were not completed until after the end of the war. Lack of fuel and materials meant that she could not be brought back into service and she was turned into a Operation Crossroads began with the first blast (Test Able), an Skwiot says two single mounts in 1932–34 and another pair, mounted near the aft funnel, were added in 1934.This was intended to be a single plate of New Vickers non-cemented armor of equal thickness, but it could not be formed into the required shape. ). She was the daughter of a Japanese Navel officer. You need to play a total of 5 battles to post in this section. This one and the Prinz Eugen in particular.Anyway, once again a great post Tanz!