Robert says: 11 Apr AM So much for 'Kantai Kessen' they had the optimal weapon for a decisive battle, yet were too scared to lose it. Vanity project, that's all that was.
Anonymous says: 7 Jan PM got to do a report on yamato this really helped love it Dom P. If the heavies had been miles in front of the carriers, they would have probably been lost to midway based aircraft, since they would have been operating without air cover. Ethan the duck says: 6 Mar AM The time line is good. Anonymous says: 18 Sep PM tht is the model iwant for christmas. He and his crew of two were the first wave to attack the Yamato.
They dove down and he released their torpedo and scored a direct hit on the Yamato only to be shot down by anti-aircraft fire and lost at sea. The spec on the big guns are off by a decimal place. The Main guns 9 were cm not 46 cm looking at the rest and I'm going to say they are really messed up too. Somebody had too much coffee.
The bore of the 9 main guns was 46 cm or mm and certainly not cm that would be 15 feet! Similarly, the bore of the 6 secondary guns was And, Yes; x25mm, really. I have an autographed photograph of seven squadron members, including Thomas Stetson, that I wish to submit to someone for its historic significance. Is this something you would be interested in receiving or do you know someone or some organization that would like to have it?
I can send it via email if provided with an email address. Joseph FP Harty says: 18 Jan AM Read this book about 10 years ago about a US sub that caught this Japanese behemoth 70, ton Yamato running at night with a skelton amatuar crew with a light escort. The story went that after being repaired from severe aerial attacks the harbor it was at was no longer able to protect it.
So they took a scram [WWII slang for bugging out ] to get to another safer port and the sub had it's torpedos run near the surface, as the belt around it was set up for normal deep running torpedo attacks. This book was published with the commanders consent, any you Navy historians read this book?
Wish I could remember the captions name am going to go through all my books, sure that one was kept, it was almost a like a sit-rip. Kaleb Ross says: 22 Jan AM actually, the submarine you are talking about was the uss skate, which fired i think 1 or 2 and one of those torpedoes hit the Yamato, badly damaging the ship and make out of action for a few months. Commander Enright of Archerfish set the torpedoes for shallow in an attempt to capsize the target. About the Site.
Most Popular. Kure Naval Arsenal. Japanese battleship Mutsu towed the old Italian-built armored cruiser Nisshin as a target ship during battleship Yamato's gunnery trials off Kurahashi Island, Japan. Yamato's 1. Deficiencies found were corrected at Kure, Japan. Her initial AA suite was twelve mm guns 6x2 , twenty-four mm guns 8x3 enclosed mounts , and four She returned later on the same day. As the war games conducted by Rear Admiral Matome Ugaki aboard Yamato were completed, Ugaki noted that a simulated attack on British Ceylon had failed.
The trials were judged a failure. Both Takayanagi and his gunnery officer were upbraided because gun aimers manning the main rangefinder misread the horizontal settings. During this month, Captain Kaoru Arima, Chief Equipping Officer of the future battleship Musashi, paid an orientation visit on Yamato with members of Musashi's fitting-out crew.
Yamamoto wished the young midget submariners well in their forthcoming missions. Captain Takayanagi, commanding officer of battleship Yamato, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. During this month, battleship Yamato would remain in the Inland Sea in Japan to conduct gunnery practice and to host Admiral Yamamoto and other officers for Midway war games.
Yamato departed Kure, Japan for battle training. After sunset, an unidentified submarine fired two torpedoes at Yamato about miles north-northeast of Minami-Torishima Marcus Island. Yamato and the other ships in the Main Body turn to port and both torpedoes miss. Yamato arrived at Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan at hours from the failed Midway attack. Yamamoto discussed his desire to exploit Mikawa's success and the need to protect convoys carrying troops to recapture Guadalcanal.
Two of the four Mark 14 steam torpedoes missed, while the other two detonated prematurely. The latter two detonations led to Donaho's conclusion that he scored two hits.
Yamato launched at least one E13A1 floatplane to join the depth charge attack already started by Yamato's four escorts, which failed to destroy USS Flying Fish.
Later in the day, Yamato arrived at Truk; she would remain the headquarters and flagship of the Combined Fleet. Battleships Yamato and Mutsu transferred 4, tons of fuel oil to empty oiler Kenyo Maru to refuel other ships. Not only is there the advantage of high speed and great efficiency, but the lack of moving parts would also reduce maintenance. What's more, eliminating the need to link the power source with the propulsion system by a shaft or other mechanical means makes radical new hull configurations possible.
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Pop Mech Rewind. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Its wave motion engine helps to make it the fleet's first warp capable vessel, bypassing the speed of light for nearly instantaneous travel across interplanetary and interstellar distances, up to at least twelve light years in one warp " Wish Upon a Star ".
Sub-light flight through space surpasses the maximum of all other UNCN ship classes. At full cruising speed, Yamato can cross in mere hours interplanetary distances that would normally take days or weeks, and it can cover the distance from the outermost reaches of the solar system to the orbit of Earth within a day " Messenger of Iscandar ", " Memories of the Blue Planet ", Space Battleship Yamato Odyssey of the Celestial Ark.
Under emergency circumstances, it can achieve even higher velocities " One Man's War ". The ship can also operate under a wide range of other conditions.
It can fly and hover in planetary atmospheres, augmented by retractable wings stored in its midsection. It can set down and lift off from dry dock facilities, and it can take advantage of its naval battleship design and navigate on bodies of water, and to a limited extent underwater " Toward a Sea of Stars ", " Escape from the Jupiter Sphere ", " The Sun Sets on Pluto ", " A Choice for the Future ", " The Distant Promised Land ".
Yamato is also equipped with an array of other advanced technologies that support its operations. Artificial gravity is created in most areas of the ship " Gravestone on a Frozen Field ". Two rocket anchors mounted on Yamato 's upper bow can be fired to hold the vessel firmly in place and to stop its momentum; they can also be used to hold an enemy vessel for close proximity fighting " Escape from the Jupiter Sphere ", Space Battleship Yamato Odyssey of the Celestial Ark.
Food and drink are. A hyperspace -based communication system allows for faster-than-light contact within a star system, and possibly farther if interference is not present " Farewell to the Solar System ".
External equipment can provide information on the ship's immediate surroundings out to at least fifty light seconds approximately 15 million kilometers with cosmo radar , as well as optical and infrared scanners " Escape from the Jupiter Sphere ", " Under a Rainbow Sun ", " The Planet That We Head For ".
A VLBI telescope can make long-distance astronomical observations, returning clear images of planet-sized objects from more than eight light years' distance " Wish Upon a Star ". Command and control of Yamato are conducted from one or more bridges placed along the ship's central vertical axis. Under most conditions, the first bridge near the top of the ship's bridge tower is used.
Far more spacious than the bridge of any other Cosmo Navy vessel, dedicated science, navigation, communications, and weapons stations line the port and starboard walls, with the helm, tactical, and computer control stations plus an auxiliary station arrayed underneath a large forward-facing window. The computer station is built with a dedicated socket for the robot AU Cosmo radar and engineering stations are placed on either side of a dimensional compass mounted in the floor at the center of the room and ahead of the elevated captain's station.
A large video monitor above the window dominates the bridge, providing scanner and communications information to the entire bridge crew. Two elevators provide access from the rear of the bridge. The second bridge is usually the preferred place for conducting combat operations when battle is anticipated ahead of time. Positioned just below the first bridge, the deck on which the second bridge is located is closer to the cover of the ship's anti-aircraft batteries on the bridge tower.
Most significant for security, the bridge itself is enclosed in the center of the deck inside a sealed armored area away from the windows, becoming a dedicated combat information center. Crew stations are more tightly clustered, and tactical displays are arranged among the stations. The commanding officer can directly control the ship's weapons through a periscope mounted above the captain's station.
Hanging below the keel is Yamato 's third bridge. It features a multi-level design, with support stations placed underneath the level of the main forward stations, to maximize use of limited space.
Two narrow ramps can be lowered from airlocks in the rear of the bridge module for loading and unloading of crew " Toward a Sea of Stars ". The captain's private quarters are placed at the very top of the bridge tower.
In addition to work and relaxation space, a canopy window provides an unobstructed view of the ship's surroundings.
The bed folds up to the rear wall to create a more open area for visitors. A single door leads from the room to the lower decks. The captain's chair can move along a track from the forward window across the room and down directly into the captain's station on the first bridge immediately below " Wish Upon a Star ", " Point of No Return ", " The Distant Promised Land ".
Senior officers are given private windowless quarters on lower decks, while junior crew members use bunks in shared cabins " Clockwork Prisoner ", " Memories of the Blue Planet ", Space Battleship Yamato Odyssey of the Celestial Ark.
Yamato 's fighters are launched from dedicated areas of the ship. Hayabusa or Cosmo Tiger II fighters are launched from from a fighter bay in the lower rear half of the battleship; readied planes are rotated into position on alternating carousels and are released backward one at a time along a tracked ramp opening from the ship's keel, behind the main thrusters. And her 24 five-inch guns, mounted in 12 turrets, could destroy targets nine miles away.
The secondary guns had one significant advantage over the main artillery: they could shoot more rounds per minute. It took at least 40 seconds to load and fire one shot from the main guns, an interminable time during an air attack. Anti-Aircraft Guns When first outfitted in , Yamato had only 24 small anti-aircraft machine guns. By April , anticipating an onslaught of Allied planes, the Imperial Navy armed Yamato with more than machine guns, most in triple-mounted turrets.
The majority of the guns shot rounds per minute, but a few stationed at the tower bridge fired at twice this rate. Unlike the heavier artillery, the machine guns could tilt at degree angles to aim at planes directly overhead. But the crews manning these guns were among the most vulnerable to direct enemy fire. They were designed for reconnaissance and to help direct Yamato 's guns to distant targets. The range of her big guns was so enormous—25 miles—that spotter planes were essential for homing in on enemy ships over the horizon.
Two immense catapults—as tall as six-story buildings when raised—launched the planes, and an equally enormous crane lifted them from the water upon their return to the ship. Living Conditions Yamato had a reputation as the most comfortable ship in the Japanese navy. For part of the war, she was the navy's flagship and home to the highest naval commanders, who were catered to.
But even low-ranking sailors fared well—eating white rice rather than barley—because Yamato spent many months in port. She was the first Japanese warship equipped with air conditioning, although it didn't cool all living quarters.
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