YAMATO…the most powerful, and to my mind, the most beautiful battleship ever to sail the seas… Overall length, 263m, beam 39m. She weighed 72000t fully loaded, and her four steam turbines generated 111855 kW, enabling her to reach a of speed of up to 27 knots. She carried a complement of 2800 sailors. Yamato s main battery consisted of nine 18.1 inch guns - the largest calibre of naval artillery ever fitted to a warship, protected by 26 inches of armour, each gun was 21.13 metres long, and weighed 147.3 tonnes, capable of firing high explosive or armour piercing shells at a range of 42 kilometres. Her secondary battery comprised twelve 6.1 in guns mounted in four triple turrets and twelve 5.0 in naval guns. In addition, Yamato carried twenty-four 25-millimetre anti-aircraft guns and 162 25 mm anti-aircraft guns. In addition, she carried 7 aircraft that was launched from two catapults… Now that is some serious firepower right there!!
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:36:18 +0000
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