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Progress in Imperial Warships: Draft for a Popular Lecture at the Second Engineering Society Convention

AI summary (β): Draft lecture for “Progress in Imperial Warships,” a popular lecture at the Second Engineering Society Convention. Former Navy shipbuilding vice admiral and Doctor of Engineering Hiraga Yuzuru discusses the fighting strength of warships in terms of offensive power, defensive power, speed, cruising range, habitability, and other factors; the development of guns, torpedoes, bombing, armor plate, watertight compartmentation, range-finding and communications equipment; and outlines the design history of capital ships, aircraft carriers, and cruisers. Mentions Tsukuba, Satsuma, Aki, Kongō, Fusō, Nagato, Mutsu, Kaga, Tosa, Amagi, Akagi, Hōshō, Furutaka, and others, and argues for the continuation of research under the restrictions following the Washington Treaty and the London Treaty. Issued April 9, 1932; the beginning of the text bears the date May 9, Shōwa 7. Keywords: Hiraga Yuzuru, Imperial warships, capital ships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, Washington Treaty, London Treaty, Nagato, AkagiAuto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.
Item ID: 4f7658cf-495f-4a6f-b1b6-741b1fbed649
Catalogue ID: 60240201
Card catalogue: [Lecture for business operators, 1931? Shipyard or Engineering Society?]
Category: 講演・講義:一般
Issued: 1932-04-09
Holder: 東京大学柏図書館
Year registered: 2007
Warship: Warship
GCV entities: Document / Calligraphy / Handwriting / Artwork / Drawing