"YAMATO - World's Largest & Greatest Battleship Ever Built "

this ship was amazing, and it was almost a sin when she had to be sank.

Displacement: 65,027 tonnes (64,000 long tons)[4]
71,659 tonnes (70,527 long tons) (full load)[4]
Length: 256 metres (839 ft 11 in) (waterline)
263 metres (862 ft 10 in) (overall)[4]
Beam: 36.9 metres (121 ft 1 in)[4]
Draft: 11 metres (36 ft 1 in)[4]
Installed power: 150,000 shaft horsepower (111,855 kW)[4]
Propulsion: • 12 Kampon boilers, driving 4 steam turbines[4]


Here Is A good Video, of her final battle, Note there are boring parts just skip them, And the last of the video is very gruesome, so viewer discretion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8AC-qmoRzg&feature=related

The Jap's deserve credit for that ship, id hate to take it on even today.

 

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Yamato, it was named after the ancient Yamato Province located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū.. Also, the Japanese are also called Yamato. 大和, literally means "Big Peace".

 

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It was an impressive ship. But it had to be sunk.

 

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It made sense, something that big could intimidate nations into peace, esp at the time, in history.

If fire had not of hit its own ammunition, it damn well may not have been.

 

True.

 

Actually the Musashi was the worlds largest battleship, she was Yamato's bigger yet younger sister.

Japan didnt design it so big for the hell of it, they knew they were going to be outnumbered and HAD to have quantity on their side. Musashi took 10 direct bomb hits and I believe 14 direct hits by TORPEDOS to sink.

 

Musashi was named after the Musashi province.

 

Yah it would have. The ship would never have been a threat. Battleships were dead by that time. In world war 2 there was only one time in the Pacific where one battleship fought and sank another battleship and that was a US victory. The battleships were dead.

The battles in which the Yamato and Musashi were sunk, they couldnt even fight back.

 

Actually no, it is just the literal meaning and it wasn't why they named it Yamato.

 

They named it after the Admiral right? Or was it the Emporer?

 

No, your thinking of Grand Admiral Yamamoto.

 

That's who it was. :facepalm: I knew that one too.

 

he was killed when we had intercepted and decoded the schedule by which he would personally investigate and examine the island fortifications around Japan. We ambushed him in the air with some black widows and he was never heard from ever again.

 

I knew that. I just thought the Battleship was named after him.

 

P-38 Lightnings, not P-61s.
The Black Widow wasn't in service in 1943 when Yamamoto was shot down.

 

Well....it is named after the ancient Yamato province, where the Japanese Empire originated. The Emperors of Japan have no surname.

 

My mistake, I had seen a picture and it appeared to look similar.

 

He was educated in the United States and returned to Japan.

 

Same with Kuribayashi.

 

In fact I think he even served with American forces, because In Letters From Iwo Jima he was in the same uniform as the Americans.