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- From: "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
- Subject: Re: Yamamoto? (was Re: Battleship Diplomacy)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:04:46 GMT
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- From "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
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- In article <BzD4Lo.IIy@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Bruce Burden <bruceb@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> writes:
- >
- >From Bruce Burden <bruceb@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
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- >
- >>[mod note -- that one slipped by me. From what I remember, there were 3
- >>BBs in the Yamato class -- Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano. The Shinano was
- >>converted to a carrier (displaced something like 70,000 or 80,000 tons), and
- >>was sunk by U.S. sub in the Inland Sea on it's way to sea trials. Can't
- >>remember the name of the sub that did the deed, but it's captain wrote a
- >>book about it -- _The Sinking of the Shinano_
- >>
- >
- > The Shinano was lost in much the same way the Lexington (CV-3?) was
- > lost. The torpedoes cracked an aviation fuel line, and the fumes spread
- > below decks. Once this was noticed, the captain ordered ventilation
- > fans activated. However, the fumes were drawn into an arc-ing fan
- > motor and exploded.
- >
- I think you're thinking of the Taiho, not the Shinano. Shinano was kind
- of top heavy, what with her concrete flight deck and all, and she rolled
- over and sank, but she didn't explode to my knowledge.
- By the way, Lexington was CV-2. Saratoga was CV-3.
- For what it's worth, there was supposed to be a FOURTH Yamato as well.
- She was given a hull number, (no. 111) but was not officially named, although
- one source I read ages ago mentioned the name "Kii", which was a Japanese
- BB name proposed for an Owari class BB after WWI. She was scrapped incomplete
- after Midway.
-
- David R. Wells
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- DISCLAIMER: My opinions, not AT&Ts.
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