![]() ![]() The incident of the missing blueprint, which turned out to have been destroyed by a young draftsman hoping to work someplace else in the plant, resulted in the imprisonment and torture of several completely innocent designers before the discovered the culprit. They built special hemp screens all around the building site, constructed a warehouse in front of the British consulate which had a view of the harbor, and arrested anyone who even looked at the buildings. The Japanese were obsessed with hiding the ship's construction. The book is as much about secrecy as building the ship with its myriad detail about specifications. They needed 4-centimeter diameter (about 1.5 inches) rivets and because of the thickness of the hull had to be precisely made. ![]() They had never made rivets this big before. ![]() They had to build a new freighter with an especially wide hull to transport the 18 inch-turrets to Nagasaki. The hulls were specially reinforced to fend off the new shells that they learned could still damage a vessel even in a near miss. Each ship would have both diesel and steam engines, diesel having been unreliable. and they had 40 centimeter (about 16 inches) thick hulls. Carrying 18" guns they were 124 feet wide (to accommodate the tremendous recoil of the guns) some thirty feet wider than the previous records. The managers of the Nagasaki shipyard were sworn to secrecy any violation of which was to be punished by whatever punishment the navy deemed appropriate according to the document they had to sign.Įach ship was huge, and the shipways and cranes had to be completely rebuilt to handle their enormous size and weight which dwarfed anything at sea. ![]() Having pulled out of the League of Nations following its condemnation of their invasion of Manchuria, the Japanese laid down two hulls for No. ![]()
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