Musashi Japanese Battleship Model 40? Ship Model, New, Wood / Metal 1250

  

Handcrafted from scratch using the finest woods & metal fittings. Very small details but worth mentioning.

(extra small gun or deck box). Musashi , named after the former Japanese province, was one of two Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. Their secondary armament consisted of four (6.1 in) triple-gun turrets formerly used by the Mogami-class cruisers. They were equipped with six or seven floatplanes to conduct reconnaissance. Commissioned in mid-1942, Musashi was modified to serve as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and spent the rest of the year working up.

She was used to transferring forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands several times in 1944. Torpedoed in early 1944 by an American submarine, Musashi was forced to return to Japan for repairs, during which the navy greatly augmented her anti-aircraft armament.

She was present during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June but did not come in contact with American surface forces. Musashi was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Over half of her crew was rescued.

Her wreck was located in March 2015 by a team of researchers employed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.