In one corner, Japan’s Yamato, weighing in at 65,000 tons, the biggest battleship in history. In the other corner, Iowa , at 45,000 tons the pride of America’s World War II battleship fleet.

Tonight, you'll be able to virtually tour a sand-caked Japanese battleship that has been sitting on the seafloor since World War II. IE 11 is not supported.

BATTLESHIP YAMATO - In 1934 the Japanese begin designing The Yamato, ... from a British sailor who laid underwater charges that would blow up German defenses, to Canadians, Americans, ...

In one corner, Japan’s Yamato, weighing in at 65,000 tons, the biggest battleship in history. In the other corner, Iowa , at 45,000 tons the pride of America’s World War II battleship fleet.

The Yamato was unique compared to other warships from the era, not only because it was the largest battleship on the sea. It was different in that it embodied the entire Imperial Japanese war ...

It is, in Jan Morris’s own words, “a sort of illustrated reverie, a literary meditation” inspired by the battleship itself. Ms. Morris keeps a model of the Yamato at her writing desk.