Updated 26 June 2012

Stern Turrets of Nagato

Top view of Nagato bow turrets
Note fittings for sub-caliber guns

Bow turrets of Nagato showing massive rangefinder

Battleship Mutsu as completed ca 1922
Bain News Service Photograph
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-DIG-ggbain-33903

Mutsu Turret #4 on display at the Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima as it appeared ca. 1946 - 1952
Note the sighting hoods on top of this turret and that the later turrets pictured further above eliminated these and instead have sighting ports in the sides of the turret
This is one of the turrets removed from Mutsu when she was rebuilt during the mid-1930s.  It is not a turret taken from the Mutsu wreck as is often claimed, as those turrets were not salvaged until 1970 and the Etajima display was constructed during the late 1930s.
Photograph from the the estate of Mr. Lindsay Poor (Australian Air Force)
State Library of Victoria Image H2009.15/194

Shell Cages for Japanese Battleships

Type 99 No 80 Mark 5 Bomb
Digital image by Andy Hall based upon a drawing by John F. De Virgilio
Digital image copyrighted by the PAST Foundation and the Submerged Resources Center of the National Park Service

03 December 2006 - Benchmark
11 May 2009 - Added picture of Mutsu
26 June 2012 - Added sketch of shell cages and picture of turret at Etajima