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Name: | Musashi |
Namesake: | Province of Musashi |
Ordered: | June 1937 |
Builder: | Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki |
Laid down: | 29 March 1938 |
Launched: | 1 November 1940 |
Commissioned: | 5 August 1942 |
Struck: | 31 August 1945 |
Fate: | Sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 24 October 1944 |
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Class and type: | Yamato-class battleship |
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Beam: | 36.9 m (121 ft 1 in) |
Draft: | 10.86 m (35 ft 8 in) (full load) |
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Speed: | 27.46 knots (50.86 km/h; 31.60 mph) |
Range: | 7,200 nmi (13,300 km; 8,300 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement: | 2,500 |
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Musashi (武蔵?) was the second ship of the Yamato class of Imperial Japanese Navy World War II battleships.
She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) 45 Caliber Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. Neither ship survived the war.
Named after Japan's ancient Musashi Province,[1] the Musashi was commissioned in mid-1942, 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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