Imperial Japanese Navy — Battleship class
Nagato-class battleship
Nagato class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1917–1921
- Preceded by
- Ise-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Tosa-class battleship (planned)
- Builders
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 32,203 long tons (32,720 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 38,498 long tons (39,116 t)
- Length
- 215.8 m (708 ft) OA
- Speed
- 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h, 30.5 mph)
- Complement
- 1,333
- Main gun
- 410 mm (16.1 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 41 cm guns
- 20 × single 14 cm guns
- 4 × single 7.62 cm AA guns
- 8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
Nagato, 1944
- Displacement, standard
- 38,512 long tons (39,130 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 45,953 long tons (46,690 t)
- Length
- 224.94 m (738 ft) OA
- Speed
- 25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
- Complement
- 1,734
- Main gun
- 410 mm (16.1 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 41 cm guns
- 18 × single 14 cm guns
- 4 × twin 12.7 cm DP guns
- 98 × 25 mm AA guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese battleship Mutsu | 1921 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Japanese battleship Nagato | 1920 | Target 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Nagato-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.