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Ships · Japan · 1920-1945

Nagato

battleship

As Admiral Yamamoto's flagship, Nagato transmitted the coded signal that launched the Pearl Harbor attack, though she herself stayed in home waters. The only Japanese battleship to survive the war, she was captured largely intact and used as a target ship in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests of 1946, where she finally sank.

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crew~1,333 as built, ~1,734 by 1944
armament8x 41cm guns
displacement39,120 tons (standard, as reconstructed), 42,850 full load
speed25 knots

Pacific

Nagato on her sea trials
Nagato on her sea trialsUnknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · source
binoculars from the battleship Nagato
binoculars from the battleship NagatoDsdugan · CC0 · source
The Baker shot of Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. As the spray column collapses a 900-foot-tall "base surge" of radioactive mist envelops the target ships. Ship in the foreground (left) is the Japanese
The Baker shot of Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. As the spray column collapses a 900-foot-tall "base surge" of radioactive mist envelops the target ships. Ship in the foreground (left) is the JapaneseAnonymous military photographer · Public domain · source

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