Nagato Class Battleship from the Left

Here we see one of the two Nagato Class battleships after their final major refits. In the mid 1920s the original two funnels were trunked into the single funnel seen here and in the mid 1930s the pagoda foremast structure was installed. The Nagato herself survived the war and was destroyed during the Bikini atom bomb tests. The Mutsu was destroyed by a magazine explosion on 8 June 1943 in Hiroshima Bay.

Super-Battleships of World War I – the lost battleships of the Washington Treaty, Angus Konstam. Looks at the designs for even larger battleships produced during and just after the First World War, in Japan, the UK and the USA, focusing on the design process that created them, the Washington Naval Treaty that cancelled most of them, the technical specs of the various designs and finally how they might have been modified if they had entered service (Read Full Review)

How to cite this article: Rickard, J (28 September 2019), Nagata Class Battleship from the Left , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_nagato_class_battleship.html

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