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On Light Construction of Warships, November 15, Taisho 12
- AI summary (β)
- The lecture materials “On Light Construction of Warships” discuss Hiraga Makoto’s views on the necessity and effects of light construction to reduce warship displacement, outfitting, and hull and machinery weight. Using destroyers, light cruisers, capital ships, and the Kuma class (5500Tma) as examples, they describe design opinions from Taisho 6, proposals from Taisho 10 onward for reducing construction costs, the performance of a new 3,100-ton class ship, vibration, seakeeping, service life, and responses to weight limits after the Washington Treaty. Issued November 15, Taisho 12. Keywords: On Light Construction of Warships, Hiraga Makoto, light construction, destroyer, light cruiser, Kuma class, 5500Tma, Washington Treaty, displacement, reduction of construction costsAuto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.
- Item ID
- 30d7414b-5b43-4ee3-92ec-59750dfa19b8
- Catalogue ID
- 60390901
- Card catalogue
- [Lecture manuscript “On Light Construction of Warships,” etc.]
- Category
- 講演・講義:講演
- Issued
- 1923-11-15
- Holder
- 東京大学柏図書館
- Year registered
- 2007
- Warship
- Warship
- Remarks
- Secret
- GCV entities
- Document / Handwriting






































