Nagato class battleship

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The battleship Nagato
Class overview
Name:	Nagato
Operators:	Imperial Japanese Navy
In service:	- 1945
In commission:	November 15, 1920
Completed:	2
Active:	none
General characteristics
Type:	Battleship
Displacement:	42,850 tons
Length:	221.03 m (725 ft 2 in)
Beam:	34.59 m (113 ft 6 in)
Draught:	9.50 m (31 ft 2 in)
Draft:	2.9 metres
Propulsion:	Geared turbines, 4 shafts, 80000 hp (60 MW)
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h)
Range:	5,500 nm at 16 knots (10,200 km at 30 km/h)
Complement:	1,368
Armament:	Eight 16 inch (410 mm) guns Twenty (later eighteen) 5.5 inch (140 mm) guns Eight 5 inch (127 mm) anti-aircraft guns Up to 98 25 mm AA guns
Aircraft carried:	3

The Nagato class battleships were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The name Nagato (Japanese: 長門) comes from the Nagato province.

They were the first battleships in the world to mount 16 inch class (410 mm) guns, and their armour protection and speed made them the most powerful capital ships at the time of their commissioning.

After the Washington Naval treaty, which prohibited major naval powers to build more battleships, they were extensively modified in the 1920s and 1930s.

[edit] Ships of the class

Name	Commissioned	Fate
Nagato	November 15, 1920	Sunk during the second Operation Crossroads Bikini nuclear test, 25 July 1946
Mutsu	October 24, 1921	Sunk by internal explosion, June 8, 1943

The Nagato was the only Japanese battleship to survive the second world war.