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Japanese battleship Tosa
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Tosa at Nagasaki on 31 July 1922
Tosa was a planned battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, Tosa was to be the first of two Tosa class ships. Displacing 39,900-long-ton (40,540 t) and armed with ten 410 mm (16.1 in) guns, these warships would have brought Japan closer to its goal of an "Eight-four" fleet (eight battleships and four battlecruisers). All work on Tosa was halted after the Washington Naval Conference and the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. As the vessel had to be destroyed in accordance with the terms of the treaty, it was subjected to various tests to gauge the effectiveness of Japanese weaponry before being scuttled exactly one hundred years ago (9 February 1925). (Full article...)
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- Promoted: May 11, 2010
- Reasons for nomination: Centenary of when it was sunk.
- Support as nominator. Ed [talk] [OMT] 03:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)