Nagato Class Battleship
The Nagato-class battleships (長門型戦艦, Nagato-gata senkan?) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I, although they were not completed until after the end of the war. They were the first battleships in the world with guns larger than 15 inches (381 mm) and were considered by the Japanese to be the equivalents of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class battleships.
The ships were extensively modified in the 1920s and 1930s after the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 prohibited new capital ship construction for over a decade. As a result of the treaty, they were the last battleships built by Japan until the Yamato-class battleships of the late 1930s.
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