Mutsu

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Nagato
Builder:
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan
Pennant number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
May 31, 1920
Keel Laid:
June 1, 1918
Commissioned:


October 24, 1921
Fate:
Sunk June 8, 1943 due to magazine explosion. Some of the wreck has been salvaged, but
most of it remains where it sank.

Location: Hiroshima Bay off Kure, Japan.

Over 1,100 crewmen and naval air cadets killed, 353 survivors picked up by Fuso.


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Page published Mar. 17, 2007