Jump to content

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Japanese battleship Nagato

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Article promoted Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:43, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese battleship Nagato

[edit]
Nominator(s): Sturmvogel 66 (talk)

Despite surviving World War II, Nagato had a surprisingly uneventful career. She only participated in a couple of battles during the war, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and was laid up after that to save fuel. Surrendered at the end of the war, the Americans used her as a target during Operation Crossroads, the tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. She is now a popular scuba-diving destination there. I believe that I've incorporated all of the ACR and FAC comments from her sister ship Mutsu's ACR and FAC, so she should be in pretty good shape.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support This article is in excellent condition, and I have only the following comments:

  • I'm biased on the topic of the article on the 1945 raid targeting the ship given that I wrote most of it, but IMO it warrants a mention in the lead as it was one of the most dramatic incidents in the ship's history
  • Was Nagato one of the ships which chased after the American fleet following the Doolittle Raid?
    • No.
  • I'd suggest noting the decision to flood the ship's ballast tanks to convince the Americans that she had been sunk in the July 1945 raid, as well as her preparations to put to sea on 2 August (see Tully 2003) Nick-D (talk) 10:45, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments - mostly minor stuff:

  • Is there a link to Gihon? Presumably it's a notable company and should be redlinked if there isn't already an article.
    • I can't find anything on the web about it. It may be the equivalent of Kampon as an IJN-designed equipment, but built commercially. The history of the Mitsubishi-Nagasaki shipyard that I have says that the company built more than a few Gihon turbines.
  • It seems as though most of the ship's captains are redlinked, but a few aren't - why is that?
    • The redlinked ones made flag rank, the others didn't.
      • Makes sense.
  • It might be worthwhile to point out when the Japanese surrendered - readers might be confused about why US ships were securing the ship without a fight.
    • Good idea.
  • When exactly did she sink? The night she capsized?
    • Clarified.
  • "8 cm, their actual caliber was 76.2 mm" - why different units of measure?
    • The IJN preferred to round units to the nearest whole number when they first adopted the metric system around 1920. Later they were more precise after the various naval treaties limited cruiser guns to 155 and 203 mm.
      • I was curious why "7.62 cm" wouldn't make more sense.
  • No duplicate links
  • Image review:
  • Great work as usual, Sturm. Parsecboy (talk) 18:45, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support on prose per standard disclaimer. These are my edits. - Dank (push to talk) 15:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Assessment/Japanese_battleship_Nagato&oldid=595186227"