Japanese battleship Nagato
Service
- as Nagato25 November 1920 — 15 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Nagato
- Namesake
- Nagato Province
- Builder
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 28 August 1917
- Launched
- 9 November 1919
- Commissioned
- 25 November 1920
- Struck
- 15 September 1945
- Fate
- Sunk as a target in Operation Crossroads, 29/30 July 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 32,203 long tons (32,720 t)
- Length
- 215.8 m (708 ft)
- Beam
- 29.02 m (95.2 ft)
- Draught
- 9.08 m (29.8 ft)
- Speed
- 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h, 30.5 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 1,333
- Main gun
- 410 mm (16.1 in)
Nagato was a Nagato-class battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Nagato Province. Her keel was laid at Kure Naval Arsenal on 28 August 1917. Launched on 9 November 1919, she entered service on 25 November 1920.
Her class ran to two ships. The class followed the Ise-class battleship and was succeeded by the Tosa-class battleship.
Displacement was 32,203 long tons. She measured 215.8 m (708 ft) long with a beam of 29.0 m (95 ft). Her designed speed was 26.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,333.
Her main battery was eight 410 mm (16.1 in) guns in four twin mountings. 80,000 shp drove four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 September 1945.
She was expended as a target on 30 July 1946. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 shafts; 4 × steam turbines
- Power
- 21 × water-tube boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 41 cm guns
- 20 × single 14 cm guns
- 4 × single 76 mm AA guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 100 - 305 mm
- Deck: 69 mm + 75 mm
- Gun turrets: 190 - 356 mm
- Barbettes: 305 mm
- Conning tower: 369 mm
1944
- Displacement, standard
- 38,512 long tons (39,130 t)
- Length
- 224.94 m (738 ft)
- Beam
- 34.6 m (113.5 ft)
- Draught
- 9.49 m (31.1 ft)
- Speed
- 25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
- Range
- 8,650 nmi (16,020 km)
- Complement
- 1,734
- Main gun
- 410 mm (16.1 in)
- Power
- 80000 shp
- 10 × water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 4 × twin 41 cm guns
- 18 × single 14 cm guns
- 4 × twin 127 mm DP guns
- 98 × 25 mm AA guns
- Armour
- Deck: 69 mm + 100 mm + 38 mm
- Turrets: 280 - 460 mm
- Barbettes: 457 mm
- Aircraft
- 3 × floatplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese battleship Nagato on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Kure Maritime Museum, (edited by Kazushige Todaka), Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Battleships and Battle Cruisers , p.162 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons