Nagato-class battleship
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The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy towards the end of World War I, although they were not completed until after the war. The last
Nagato at sea
Office of Naval Intelligence recognition drawing of the Nagato class
A 41 cm 3rd Year Type gun from Mutsu on display at the Yamato Museum in Kure, Japan
A twin 127 mm gun mount aboard Nagato
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
Nagato-class battleship
…The Nagato-class battleships (長門型戦艦, Nagato-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships (lead ship Nagato and her sister ship Mutsu) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) towards the end of World War I, although they were not completed until after the…
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