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In October 1974, Leiji Matsumoto created a television series, Space Battleship Yamato, about rebuilding the battleship as a starship and its interstellar quest to save Earth. The series was a huge success, spawning eight feature films and four more TV series, the most recent of which was released in 2017.
Yamato, and especially the story of her sinking, has appeared often in Japanese popular culture, such as the anime Space Battleship Yamato and the 2005 film Yamato. [83] The appearances in popular culture usually portray the ship's last mission as a brave, selfless, but futile, symbolic effort by the participating Japanese sailors to defend ...
The torpedo hits—almost all on the port side—caused Yamato to list enough that capsizing was an imminent danger. [41] At 13:33, in a desperate attempt to keep the ship from capsizing, Yamato ' s damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms. This narrowly mitigated the imminent danger of capsizing but also ...
Japanese corvette Yamato, corvette of the Katsuragi-class corvette, launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945. Yamato-class battleship, a class of 2 Japanese battleships and an aircraft carrier of World War II Japanese battleship Yamato, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after Yamato Province
Two ships in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy were named Yamato: Japanese battleship Yamato , was the lead ship of her class of battleships , launched in 1940 and sunk in 1945 Japanese corvette Yamato , was a Katsuragi -class corvette , launched in 1885, decommissioned in 1935 and sank in 1945.
The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its ... Yamato class: 64,170 tons 9 × 18-in. 12 × 6.1-in. 2,500 27.5 kn Yamato:
Design A-150, [A] popularly known as the Super Yamato class, [B] was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have carried six 51-centimeter (20.1 in) guns to ensure their qualitative superiority over any other battleship they might face.
The 46 cm (18.1 in) 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval rifle was a wire-wound gun.Mounted in three 3-gun turrets (nine per ship), they served as the main armament of the two Yamato-class battleships that were in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.