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Matter Concerning the Use of the Contents of Kaga and Tosa, Constructor Captain Hiraga
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- Opinion paper, “Matter Concerning the Use of the Contents of Kaga and Tosa.” On 6 February 1922, Constructor Captain Hiraga discusses measures for the future use of the existing machinery, armament, and armor of Kaga and Tosa under the Washington Treaty and the present agreement. He examines the interpretation of converting auxiliary ships into capital ships, the advantages and disadvantages in relation to conversion into aircraft carriers, the construction of high-speed auxiliary ships using the machinery of Kaga and Tosa, protection against torpedoes, mines, and aircraft bombs, “bulges,” and destroyer squadron depot ships, and states that such ships would have a displacement of 20,000 tons, a speed of 28–29 knots, a construction cost of approximately 12 million yen, and could be converted into capital ships within six months if necessary. Keywords: Kaga, Tosa, Constructor Captain Hiraga, Washington Treaty, auxiliary ship, capital ship, aircraft carrier, use of machinery, bulge, destroyer squadron depot shipAuto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.
- Item ID
- 8822a20c-78fb-48d4-b42f-cdef91bd4521
- Catalogue ID
- 22281501
- Card catalogue
- [Materials relating to the reconstruction of capital ships]
- Category
- 軍艦構造:その他
- Issued
- 1922-02-06
- Holder
- 東京大学柏図書館
- Year registered
- 2007
- Warship
- Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga
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