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Yamato near the end of her fitting out, 20 September 1941 [14] Yamato ' s main battery consisted of nine 45-caliber 46-centimetre (18.1 in) Type 94 guns—the largest ever fitted to a warship, [15] although the shells were not as heavy as those fired by the British 18-inch naval guns of World War I.
In December 1943, Yamato was torpedoed which necessitated repairs at Kure, where she was refitted with additional anti-aircraft guns and radar in early 1944. Yamato was dispatched to Okinawa in April 1945, with orders to beach herself and fight until destroyed. On 7 April 1945 she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers.
Yamato as she appeared c. 1945 (specific configuration from 7 April 1945) In the original design, the Yamato class' secondary armament comprised twelve 15.5 cm/60 Type 3 guns mounted in four 3-gun turrets (one forward, two amidships, one aft), [53] and twelve 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 guns in six double turrets (three on each side amidships). [53]
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.
Requiem for Battleship Yamato (戦艦大和ノ最期, lit. The Last Days of the Battleship Yamato (Senkan Yamato no Saigo)) is a book by Mitsuru Yoshida. It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself. It was first published in 1949.
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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
Behind the museum there is a brick park, a lawn plaza, and the "Yamato Wharf", a 1:1 scale silhouette of Yamato's bridge. West of the museum are located the submersible research ship Shinkai, as well as the original Kure naval arsenal' big lathe (N° 15299) which was used to craft the Yamato's 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval gun.