Nagato (Japanese: 長門, named after the ancient Nagato Province) was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Completed...
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The Nagato-class battleships (長門型戦艦, Nagato-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) towards the...
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Mutsu 1920-05-31 Nagato class Super-dreadnought Imperial Japanese Navy Blew up at Hashirajima, 8 June 1943 Nagato 1919-11-09 Nagato class Super-dreadnought...
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List of battleships of Japan (section Nagato class)
Japan ordered its seventh and eighth dreadnoughts with the Nagato class in 1916 and 1917. In 1919, American President Woodrow Wilson announced the resumption...
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existed for an "Eight-Eight Fleet". The new ships started were the two Nagato-class battleships, the two Tosa-class battleships, and a total of four Amagi-class...
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1st Battleship Division (consisting of Nagato, Yamato, and Musashi) on 25 February 1944, initially with Nagato as his flagship, then transferring his...
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in May 1923. On his return to Japan, he was assigned to the battleship Nagato for six months, before serving as an instructor at the Submarine School...
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eight years old. However, having four large battleships (two each of the Nagato and Tosa classes) and four Amagi-class battlecruisers on order put an enormous...
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completion in 1920, typified by the US Colorado class and the Japanese Nagato class. During the First World War, the Royal Navy was unique in operating...
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period from 1600 to 1871. The Chōshū Domain was based at Hagi Castle in Nagato Province, in the modern city of Hagi, located in the Chūgoku region of the...
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USS Greene (section Destroyer (1919-1922))
was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy in service from 1919 to 1922. She was recommissioned in 1940 and wrecked in a storm in October...
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hypotheses about pre-Islamic fertility cults. The Mara Kannon Shrine (麻羅観音) in Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture is one of many fertility shrines in Japan that still...
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HMS M2 (1918) (redirect from HMS M2 (1919))
HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into a submarine aircraft carrier. She was wrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset,...
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1917-1918 Ise — †July, 1945 Hyūga — run aground in July, 1945 2 Nagato class — built 1920-1921 Nagato Mutsu — †June, 1943 0 Yamato class (3 building (1 converted...
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Nakakuboshin and Nakakubofuru and the village of Daimon merged to form the town of Nagato. (-) The villages of Kamigawa and Izumida merged into the city of Ueda....
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battleships designed and laid down at the end of World War I. The Japanese Nagato-class battleships in 1917 carried 410-millimetre (16.1 in) guns, which was...
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Satsuma Settsu Tsukuba Ibuki Kirishima Haruna Fuso Ise after conversion Nagato ‡ Before conversion to hybrid aircraft carriers Yamato and Musashi in Truk...
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patrol for the Combined Fleet's "Main Body" battle-line of six battleships: Nagato, Mutsu, Fusō, Yamashiro, Ise, and Hyūga. With the Main Body, Hōshō sortied...
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and his grandchildren include the actors Masahiko Tsugawa and Hiroyuki Nagato. Actress Yoko Minamida is a granddaughter-in-law. Makino was born in Kyoto...
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0 mi) closed in 1944, and the rest of the line in 1961. Ozuki station – The Nagato Railway Co. opened an 18 km (11 mi) line to Nishi-Cho in 1918. JGR assumed...
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started for Japan on 8 December, the division, reinforced by the battleships Nagato and Mutsu and the light carrier Hōshō, sortied from Hashirajima to the Bonin...
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HMS Diomede (D92) (redirect from HMS Diomede (1919))
Diomede (ship, 1919). Ships of the Danae class Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940"....
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USS Apogon (SS-308) – submarine USS Pilotfish (SS-386) – submarine Japanese battleship Nagato – battleship Japanese cruiser Sakawa – light cruiser Due to the nuclear...
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destroyers. From November 1922-November 1923, he was assigned to the battleship Nagato. After his promotion to lieutenant in December 1923, he served as chief...
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2005-02-21 [795] Hagi 萩市 Yamaguchi 55,831 698.87 79.9 2005-03-06 [796] Nagato 長門市 Yamaguchi 39,825 357.92 111 2005-03-22 [797] San'yo-OnodaSan'yō-Onoda...
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SS Mauna Loa (redirect from SS Golden Eagle (1919))
She was christened SS West Conob in 1919 and renamed SS Golden Eagle in 1928. At the time of her completion in 1919, the ship was inspected by the United...
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vessel and former cruiser Nisshin on 1 May, and received the command of the Nagato on 1 December. Hasegawa was promoted to rear admiral on 1 December 1927...
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His wife was the daughter of Katō Hiroyuki. Katsu Isaburō was born in Nagato Province in Chōshū Domain (present-day Yamaguchi prefecture, as the second...
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decided. So I will fight the best I can. Doubtless I shall die on board Nagato [his flagship]. Meanwhile, Tokyo will be burnt to the ground three times...
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29 March 1928, Hiei departed Sasebo alongside Kongō and the battleships Nagato and Fusō to patrol off the Chusan Archipelago, before arriving in the company...
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