Japanese
warship limited edition naval prints Yamato,
Japanese battleship in Naval art prints by naval artist, Randall Wilson.
The Yamato Class Battleship designed during 1934, was to be a series of
4 Battleships, The Yamato, Musashi, Shinano and Kii. The construction of
these battleships was under the strictest secrecy. The Yamoto was
launched on the 8th August 1940and entered service on the 16th December
1941. the Yamato was sunk on on the 7th April 1945 by Torpedoes
and Bombs by Carrier borne Aircraft while she was on a Kamikazi mission
to Okinawa. The Musashi was also bombed and sunk by carrier borne
aircraft south of Luzon Island on the 24th October 1944. the
Shinano was never completed as a battleship instead she was converted
into a huge Aircraft Carrier. While on her trials was was sunk by four
Torpedoes from the American Submarine Archerfish. The fourth Battleship
of the group the Kii was never completed and work was suspended in
December 1941. with the completed parts becoming spares for the sister
ships.
Tenichigo by Randall Wilson.
The Yamato was sunk on the 7th of April 1945 by torpedoes and bombs from carrier-borne aircraft while she was on a Kamikaze mission to Okinawa.
The 74,000 ton Yamato and the Musashi were the two largest battleships ever built, and typified the Imperial Japanese Navys attitude that their ships should be superior to anything the United States had. As a comparison the German Battleship Deutschland displaced a mere 15,500 tons. Each of these ships carried nine 18.1 inch guns, the most powerful armament available on any ship at that point in time. The Yamato participated in the attack on Midway, serving as Admiral Yamamotos flag ship, and many of the other significant sea battles in the Pacific. By the time the Allies were preparing to invade Okinawa, the Japanese had been forced to utilize Kikusui tactics which would involve mass suicide attacks and individual suicide missions. The army had made numerous sacrifices, and senior Japanese naval officers realized that the Yamato would need to be sacrificed in the defense of Okinawa, as a matter of pride. The Yamatos 350-mile trip to Okinawa without any meaningful air cover would be .........
In April of 1945, the Japanese military command sent its prize battleship on an impossible kamikaze mission; to defeat a large US fleet off the coast of Japan. Her name was the Yamato and she was the largest and most technologically advanced battleship in history. With guns of awesome calibre, massive armour, she was considered to be virtually unsinkable. Yet she would be sunk, in just four hours, during one of the last naval battles of World War II. This is the story of the Battleship Yamato, its creation as the flagship of Japanese naval power, its part in the battle of Midway, up to its last suicide sortie and of how its recent discovery has shed light on its final moments. In 1999 a Japanese salvage crew set off on a multi-million dollar mission to find the final resting place of the pride of Japan. Three hundred and fifty metres down, the Yamato lay largely intact on the floor of the South China Sea. Some of the first ever pictures of the remains of historys largest battleship of.........
