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Musashi
Musashi leaving Brunei in October 1944 for the Battle of Leyte Gulf
التاريخ
Empire of Japan
الاسم: Musashi
السمِيْ: Province of Musashi
طُلِبت: June 1937
الباني: Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki
وُضِع هيكلها: 29 March 1938
أُطلِقت: 1 November 1940
بدأت الخدمة: 5 August 1942
ضُربت: 31 August 1945
المصير: Sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 24 October 1944
السمات العامة (as built)
الفئة والنوع: Yamato، طراز battleship
الازاحة:
الطول:
  • 244 m (800 ft 6 in) (p/p)
  • 263 m (862 ft 10 in) (o/a)
العارضة: 36.9 m (121 ft 1 in)
الغاطس: 10.86 m (35 ft 8 in) (full load)
قدرة التركيب:
الدفع:
السرعة: 27.46 knots (50.86 km/h; 31.60 mph)
المدى: 7,200 nmi (13,300 km; 8,300 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
المرافقون: 2,500
المجسات
وأنظمة المعالجة:
التسليح:
الدروع:
الطائرات المحمولة: 6–7 × Nakajima E8N or Nakajima E4N floatplanes
إمكانيات الطيران: 2 × catapults

Musashi (武蔵), named after an ancient Japanese province,[1] was one of two Yamato، طراز battleships[N 1] built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed,[3] displacing almost 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) fully loaded and armed with nine 46-centimetre (18.1 in) main guns. Their secondary armament consisted of four 15.5-centimetre (6.1 in) triple-gun turrets formerly used by the Mogami، طراز cruisers. They were equipped with six or seven floatplanes to conduct reconnaissance.

Commissioned in mid-1942, Musashi was modified to serve as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and spent the rest of the year working up. The ship was transferred to Truk in early 1943 and sortied several times that year with the fleet in unsuccessful searches for American forces. She was used to transfer forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands several times in 1944. Torpedoed in early 1944 by an American submarine, Musashi was forced to return to Japan for repairs, where the navy greatly augmented her anti-aircraft armament. She was present during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June, but did not come in contact with American surface forces. Musashi was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Over half of her crew was rescued. Her wreck was located in March 2015 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his team of researchers.

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التصميم والوصف

مقال رئيسي: Yamato-class battleship


التسليح

Musashi, August 1942, taken from the bow


التدريع

Right elevation drawing of Musashi as she appeared in 1942

الطائرات


الإنشاء

Musashi as she appeared in mid-1944

To cope with Musashi's great size and weight, the construction slipway was reinforced, nearby workshops were expanded, and two floating cranes were built. The ship's keel was laid down on 29 March 1938 at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyard, and was designated "Battleship No. 2". Throughout construction, a large curtain made of hemp rope weighing 408 t (450 short tons) prevented outsiders from viewing construction.[4][5][N 2]

الخدمة

Yamamoto's ashes return to Japan aboard Musashi, 23 May 1943.
Musashi and Yamato in Truk Lagoon in early 1943.
Emperor Hirohito and his staff on board Musashi, 24 June 1943
Musashi down by the bow after the air attacks, shortly before her sinking.

معركة خليج ليتي

مقال رئيسي: معركة خليج ليتي
Musashi under attack by American carrier aircraft أثناء معركة خليج ليتي.


الاكتشاف


ملاحظات

  1. ^ Four ships were begun, but only two were completed as battleships. The third, Shinano, was completed as an aircraft carrier and the fourth was scrapped before completion.[2]
  2. ^ The amount of sisal rope necessary to complete the curtain was so great that it caused a shortage in the fishing industry.[6]

الهامش

  1. ^ Silverstone, p. 334
  2. ^ Garzke & Dulin, pp. 74–80, 84
  3. ^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير صحيح؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة j9
  4. ^ Garzke & Dulin, pp. 51, 53, 66
  5. ^ Yoshimura, p. 29
  6. ^ Garzke & Dulin, p. 51

المصادر

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  • Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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  • Yoshimura, Akira (1999). Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the World's Greatest Battleship. Tokyo: Kodansha International. ISBN 4-7700-2400-2.


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وصلات خارجية

قالب:Yamato class battleship قالب:October 1944 shipwrecks