Ship in a bottle V7 "Yamato"
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Its name was Yamato, the mightiest warship yet constructed. Displacing 71,659 tons and capable of 27 knots, the Yamato possessed the greatest firepower ever mounted on a vessel—more than 150 guns, including nine 18.1-inchers that could hurl 3,200-pound armor-piercing shells on a trajectory of 22.5 miles. Its massive armor was the heaviest ever installed on a dreadnought-class battleship, making it virtually impregnable to the guns of any ship in the world. The very name Yamato was a poetic and spiritual term for Japan itself. In its gray, armored magnificence, the great ship symbolized Japan’s dreams of conquest. But she fell short sinking off the coasts of Okinawa in a daring last effort to detour the American forces invading the island.
And in that fail swoop the imperial Japanese navy had been defeated for the last time in world war II the biggest battleship in history had been sunk.
