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World of warships mogami review9/23/2023 battleships that sank Fuso and Yamashiro in Surigao Strait. I find it ironic that Mogami's last action was to be sunk at the hands of the same U.S. As you probably gathered from my comments on Ise and Hyuga, I'm not very impressed with this move, because none of these hybrid ships were very useful as aviation vessels. Very sneaky.Īt the battle of Midway, Mogami was very nearly sunk, and it was decided to rebuild her as an a hybrid cruiser/carrier to carry additional float planes. They had been cleverly designed so that the turret base rings would also accept a dual 8" turret when the time came, and all were re-armed this way shortly before the war. When first launched, these ships were officially classified as light cruisers, because they were armed with 15 x 6" guns. When she began running trials, it was discovered that firing all the guns of her main battery simultaneously had the unpleasant effect of popping the welds along her sides. Turns out that even given her extra displacement, she was overloaded. Not surprisingly, foreign naval observers were a little suspicious about her. Mogami, when first built, weighed in at about 13,400 (although I should also mention that some other Japanese CAs had been rebuilt by that point to exceed even this displacement). These ships win the prize for "Egregious Treaty Violation." The London Naval Treaty of 1930 (a follow-on to the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922) specified that cruisers of all signatory nations were to be held to displacements of 10,000 tons. Mogami-class Heavy Cruiser | Nihon Kaigun
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