Japanese battleship Satsuma
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Satsuma was a semi-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Lead ship of her class, she was the first battleship built in Japan. She was nam
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Line drawing of the battleship Satsuma from Brassey's Naval Annual 1912
Japanese battleship Nagato
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Nagato was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Completed in 1920 as the lead ship of her class, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in
Japanese battleship Satsuma
…Washington Naval Treaty, stricken from the Navy List on 20 September 1923 and converted into a target ship. Satsuma was sunk by the battleships Mutsu and Nagato off the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula, near the mouth of Tokyo Bay on 7 September 1924. Evans, David & Peattie, Mark R. (1997). Kaigun: Strategy…
Nagato on her sea trials, 30 September 1920
Nagato and her crew in 1937 on the recently installed pagoda mast
Nagato at anchor in Yokosuka, October 1927
Nagato firing her main armament, 1936