[7] These additions increased the weight of the ship's armour to 13,032 tonnes (12,826 long tons),[8] 32.6 percent of her displacement. A massive influx of water into the machinery spaces caused the 150-metre (490 ft) forward section of the ship to capsize to starboard and sink almost immediately. [16], Mutsu's anti-aircraft armament was upgraded during 1932. The two aft turrets were raised in 1970 and 1971. That June, one of her aft magazines detonated while she was at anchor, sinking the ship with the loss of 1,121 crew and visitors. On the night of August 2, 1916, Leonardo da Vinci exploded and sank during ammunition loading operations. At 12:13 the magazine of her No. [1] The ship displaced 32,720 tonnes (32,200 long tons) at standard load and 39,116 tonnes (38,498 long tons) at full load. If triggered, Mutsu will do two attacks with a 1.4x post-cap modifier and the other battleship will do a 3rd attack with a 1.2x post-cap modifier. Mutsu was struck from the Navy List on 1 September 1943. Sabotage by enemy secret agents. She quickly capsized, taking 248 officers and men with her. Description. Post-war salvage attempts proved to be failures, though Mutsu ’s No. [3] That funnel was eliminated during the ship's 1930s reconstruction when all of her existing boilers were replaced by ten lighter and more powerful oil-fired Kampon boilers, which had working pressures of 22 kg/cm2 (2,157 kPa; 313 psi) and temperatures of 300 °C (572 °F). A more powerful catapult was installed in November 1938 to handle heavier aircraft like the single Kawanishi E7K, added in 1939–40. Other than participating in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942, where she did not see any significant combat, Mutsu spent most of the first year of the Pacific War in training. Mutsu met a very undignified fate, being destroyed by a massive explosion in 1943 after a fire, which was believed to have been caused deliberately by a disaffected crewman, who was among the 1200 or so of her complement who lost their… One of the 140 mm casemate guns was raised in 1963 and donated to the Yasukuni Shrine. The accidents serve to demonstrate the fragility of the world’s most powerful warships, and indeed the fragility of national military prestige itself. Prior to diving on the wreck they were allowed to familiarize themselves on board Mutsu's sister ship, Nagato. [12] Anti-aircraft defence was provided by four 40-calibre 8-centimetre (3 in) 3rd Year Type[Note 1] AA guns in single mounts. 3 turret formerly on display at the, A rudder and a section of propeller shaft were on display at the Arashiyama Art Museum until it closed around 1991. This list examines the five worst battleship accidents of the twentieth century. Looming war clouds made the return trip fraught, but the French squadron survived without incident. [16], On 4 September 1923, Mutsu loaded supplies at Uchinoura Bay, Kyushu, for the victims of the Great Kantō earthquake. [16] Funding for the ship had partly come from donations from schoolchildren. The battle ship was named after Mutsu Province, which was the largest city in Japan at the time of its founding in 16th century. [7] When Mutsu conducted her post-reconstruction trials, she reached a speed of 24.98 knots (46.3 km/h; 28.7 mph) with 82,300 shp (61,400 kW). The ship had a stowage capacity of 1,600 t (1,600 long tons) of coal and 3,400 t (3,300 long tons) of fuel oil,[2] giving her a range of 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). They arrived at Truk on 17 August. [2], The new 41 cm turrets installed during Mutsu's reconstruction were more heavily armoured than the original ones. 4 turret is on display on the grounds of the former, One 410 mm gun from No. [51], The only significant portion of the ship that remains is a 35-metre (114 ft 10 in) long section running from the bridge structure forward to the vicinity of No. Displacing 25000 tons, she carried ten 12-inch guns and could make just over twenty-one knots. [15] The 76 mm AA guns were replaced by eight 40-calibre 12.7-centimetre (5 in) dual-purpose guns in 1932,[16] fitted on both sides of the fore and aft superstructures in four twin-gun mounts. Type 3 "Sanshikidan" incendiary shrapnel anti-aircraft shells, "Imperial Japanese Navy: Battleship Mutsu", "Omi Village Hijiri Museum & Aviation Museum", Combinedfleet.com: service history – key dates, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1943, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese_battleship_Mutsu&oldid=986640034, Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan, Ships sunk by non-combat internal explosions, World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 8,650 nmi (16,020 km; 9,950 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). [16], On 8 June 1943, Mutsu was moored in the Hashirajima fleet anchorage, with 113 flying cadets and 40 instructors from the Tsuchiura Naval Air Group aboard for familiarisation. While the, Many artifacts are displayed at the Mutsu Memorial Museum in, The fully restored No. Mass cremations of recovered bodies began almost immediately after the sinking. More than 1100 members of her crew died in the explosion and subsequent sinking. In nearly every case the accidents provoked serious investigation and proved deeply embarrassing to the navies involved. 2 and 3 turrets were replaced by 10-metre units in 1932–33. Novorossiysk was used primarily for training operations after her transfer. The sides of the conning tower were 369 mm (14.5 in) thick. The rangefinders in No. The manually operated guns had a maximum range of 20,500 metres (22,400 yd) and fired at a rate of six to ten rounds per minute. 1200 lives where lost on that day in 1943. 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