Japanese battleship Mutsu
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Mutsu was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy at the end of World War I. She continued to serve through World War II until an internal explosio
Mutsu around 1922
A twin 127 mm gun mount aboard Nagato
Mutsu at sea, 1921
Mutsu after her reconstruction
The 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun is a 41-centimeter breech-loading naval gun designed during World War I for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It served as the primary armament in the Nagato-class dread
Japanese battleship Mutsu
…her capacity to 5,560 t (5,470 long tons) and thus her range to 8,560 nmi (15,850 km; 9,850 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). Mutsu's eight 45-caliber 41-centimetre (16.1 in) guns were mounted in two pairs of twin-gun, superfiring turrets fore and aft. Numbered one to four from front to rear, the hydraulically powered turrets…
41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun from the battleship Mutsu outside the Yamato Museum
Rear view of the gun on display at the Yamato Museum