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Japanese battleship Nagato after the BAKER blast. Arthur Beaumont, Watercolor, 1946.
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Laid down:	August 28, 1917
Launched:	November 9, 1919
Commissioned:	November 15, 1920
Fate:	Sunk during the second Operation Crossroads Bikini nuclear test
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Nagato (長門) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's first Nagato class battleship, laid down at the Kure Naval Arsenal on August 28, 1917, launched on November 9, 1919, and completed on November 15, 1920. She was the flagship of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku during the Battle of Pearl Harbor.

After the war, Nagato was used as a target ship by the United States in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, and sank during the second (BAKER) test. Despised by the sailors at Bikini for its role as flagship of the Pearl Harbor attack force, mines had been strapped to her sides to facilitate her sinking. Both blasts damaged, but did not immediately sink the battleship, although BAKER caused a slow but continuous flooding.

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