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When actual preparations for construction were taken in 1937 secret police swept the areas of foreign, especially Chinese workers. At Nagasaki where there was a large foreign business and missionary population where the shipyard was visible from most of the city at hemp screen of 75,000 square meters was constructed to shield the ship from prying eyes and spies. Security measures around the shipyards where Yamato and Musashi were constructed were immense. In the event I violate this oath, I will submit to the punishment determined by the company and the Navy. I will make utmost effort to maintain the secrecy of the project, and swear that I will leak no information relating to the said battleship, even to relatives and close friends. 2 Battleship is vital to national security. I am aware that all work work involving the construction of the No. The oath sworn by builders of Musashi at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard were sworn to the oath shown below: Those charged with their deign and construction were thoroughly checked out by Japan’s secret police and sworn to an oath of secrecy. The secrecy surrounding their design and construction was unprecedented. A third ship of the class, Shinano, was named after Shinano Province in central Japan which was the home of the prestigious Taketa Shingen family during the Senguku period. Musashi was named after Musashi Province in which lays Tokyo Prefecture. Yamato was named after Yamato Province, the ancestral home of the Yamato People, the dominant native ethnic group in Japan. Their names were symbolic of Japan’s history. Shrouded in secrecy by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Government the ships were designed to offset projected American numerical superiority. They were the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built.

#EMPEROR CLASS BATTLESHIP SIZE SERIES#

This article is the first in that series which will include articles on the German Bismarck and Tirpitz, British Vanguard and American Iowa Class. I then wrote an introduction to the Post Treaty Super-Battleships. These have dealt with the British King George V Class, French Dunkerque and Richelieu Classes, Italian Vittorio Vento Class and the American North Carolina and South Dakota Classes. Previous were about the Battleships constructed under conditions of the London Naval Conference. The is a long delayed installment of my series on Battleships.

Emperor class battleship size