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was the second ship of the ''Yamato'' class of Imperial Japanese Navy World War II battleships. She and her sister ship, , were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) Type 94 main guns. Neither ship survived the war. Named after Japan's ancient Musashi Province,〔Silverstone, p. 334〕 the ''Musashi'' was commissioned in mid-1942, modified to serve as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and spent the rest of the year working up. The ship was transferred to Truk in early 1943 and sortied several times that year with the fleet in unsuccessful searches for American forces. She was used to transfer forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands several times in 1944. Torpedoed in early 1944 by an American submarine, ''Musashi'' was forced to return to Japan for repairs, where the navy greatly augmented her anti-aircraft armament. She was present during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June, but did not come in contact with American surface forces. ''Musashi'' was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Over half of her crew was rescued. Her wreck was located in March 2015 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his team of researchers. ==Design and description== (詳細はultranationalist militancy with a view to greatly expand the Japanese Empire.〔Willmott (2000), p. 32.〕 Japan withdrew from the League of Nations in 1934, renouncing its treaty obligations.〔Garzke and Dulin (1985), p. 44.〕 After withdrawing from the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited the size and power of capital ships, the Imperial Japanese Navy began their design of the new ''Yamato'' class of heavy battleships. Their planners recognized Japan would be unable to compete with the output of U.S. naval shipyards should war break out, so the 70,000 ton〔Jackson (2000), p. 74; Jentshura, Jung and Mickel (1977), p. 38.〕 vessels of the ''Yamato'' class were designed to be capable of engaging multiple enemy battleships at the same time.〔Johnston and McAuley (2000), p. 122.〕〔Willmott (2000), p. 35. The Japanese Empire produced 3.5% of the world's industrial output, while the United States produced 35%.〕〔Garzke & Dulin, p. 45〕 ''Musashi'' had a length of between perpendiculars and overall. She had a beam of 〔Chesneau, p. 178〕 and a draft of at deep load.〔Skulski, p. 10〕 she displaced at standard load and at deep load. Her crew consisted of 2,500 officers and enlisted men in 1942, and about 2,800 in 1944.〔Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 38〕 The battleship had four sets of Kampon geared steam turbines, each of which drove one propeller shaft. The turbines were designed to produce a total of , using steam provided by 12 Kampon water-tube boilers, to give her a maximum speed of . She had a stowage capacity of of fuel oil, giving a range of at a speed of .〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese battleship Musashi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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