The Japanese Yamato-class battleships were the most significant vessels ever to steam the high seas. They were gargantuan ...
The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest battleship ever constructed. her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ...
KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.
About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...