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The Tosa class battleships were two ships (Tosa and Kaga) laid down in 1920. Part of the 8-8 fleet, a construction plan which provided for eight battleships and eight battle cruisers as the core of the battle fleet, the two vessels were some of the ships never completed due to the Washington Naval Treaty.
Tosa and Kaga were conceived as somewhat improved Nagatos, taking on board lessons from Jutland. The design called for two 44,200 ton (full load), 26.5 kn battleships armed with ten 41 cm guns in five twin turrets, arranged two superfiring forward and three clustered on the long quarterdeck, with the middle one superfiring over the rear and the others at deck level. Ten single 14 cm guns were fitted in casemates on the hull and superstructure sides; protection consisted of a 280 mm main belt and 102 mm deck.
But this was not to be. Tosa was launched as scheduled in December 1921, while her sister had already been a month earlier, even though construction of Kaga was started four months later.
Both were slated for sinking as targets in 1922, a fate which Tosa eventually succumbed to after three years of thorough testing of her armour scheme against shells, bombs, mines and torpedoes. It was in fact during these tests that two shells, falling just short of the target, travelled through the water and penetrated the torpedo defence system just below the main belt, which sparked a lot of interest and further study in the IJN in so-called diving shells. Tosa was eventually scuttled in February 1925, both battleships' guns being turned over to the Imperial Japanese Army to be used as coastal defence guns.
Kaga was also to be scrapped or sunk as per the Washington Treaty, however the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 changed everything for her. The battle cruiser Amagi, which was to be converted into a carrier alonside the sister Akagi instead of being scrapped, was heavily damaged in the event: a number of support blocks of the slipway moved and fell, and the unsupported hull bent irreparably out of shape. There was no way of saving her except entirely rebuilding more than half of her hull, so she was scrapped in place. It was decided that Kaga would take her place and plans were drawn up quickly to convert the shorter hull into a similar carrier design to what was originally envisaged for Amagi and Akagi.
She emerged from the reconstruction in 1928-29 with a characteristic three-level 'stepped' flight deck, although in the 1930s this unsatisfactory configuration was changed to a full length flight deck and a small starboard island (Akagi had a port island, designed as such since the two ships were conceived to operate together as First Carrier Division).
However Kaga was never as satisfactory as her half-sister Akagi, her origins as a battleship manifesting in a relatively low top speed of 28 kn. She was eventually sunk at Midway in June 1942, and her wreck finally discovered in October 2019 by RV Petrel. The hull is mostly buried in silt and the flight deck and superstructure heavily damaged or totally missing in places; it is perhaps an ironic and fitting twist of fate her counterpart Akagi was found two days later.
Tosa and Kaga were conceived as somewhat improved Nagatos, taking on board lessons from Jutland. The design called for two 44,200 ton (full load), 26.5 kn battleships armed with ten 41 cm guns in five twin turrets, arranged two superfiring forward and three clustered on the long quarterdeck, with the middle one superfiring over the rear and the others at deck level. Ten single 14 cm guns were fitted in casemates on the hull and superstructure sides; protection consisted of a 280 mm main belt and 102 mm deck.
But this was not to be. Tosa was launched as scheduled in December 1921, while her sister had already been a month earlier, even though construction of Kaga was started four months later.
Both were slated for sinking as targets in 1922, a fate which Tosa eventually succumbed to after three years of thorough testing of her armour scheme against shells, bombs, mines and torpedoes. It was in fact during these tests that two shells, falling just short of the target, travelled through the water and penetrated the torpedo defence system just below the main belt, which sparked a lot of interest and further study in the IJN in so-called diving shells. Tosa was eventually scuttled in February 1925, both battleships' guns being turned over to the Imperial Japanese Army to be used as coastal defence guns.
Kaga was also to be scrapped or sunk as per the Washington Treaty, however the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 changed everything for her. The battle cruiser Amagi, which was to be converted into a carrier alonside the sister Akagi instead of being scrapped, was heavily damaged in the event: a number of support blocks of the slipway moved and fell, and the unsupported hull bent irreparably out of shape. There was no way of saving her except entirely rebuilding more than half of her hull, so she was scrapped in place. It was decided that Kaga would take her place and plans were drawn up quickly to convert the shorter hull into a similar carrier design to what was originally envisaged for Amagi and Akagi.
She emerged from the reconstruction in 1928-29 with a characteristic three-level 'stepped' flight deck, although in the 1930s this unsatisfactory configuration was changed to a full length flight deck and a small starboard island (Akagi had a port island, designed as such since the two ships were conceived to operate together as First Carrier Division).
However Kaga was never as satisfactory as her half-sister Akagi, her origins as a battleship manifesting in a relatively low top speed of 28 kn. She was eventually sunk at Midway in June 1942, and her wreck finally discovered in October 2019 by RV Petrel. The hull is mostly buried in silt and the flight deck and superstructure heavily damaged or totally missing in places; it is perhaps an ironic and fitting twist of fate her counterpart Akagi was found two days later.
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