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December 18, Taisho 13. Top Secret. On the General Trends in Warship Design among the Great Powers. Navy Shipbuilding Rear Admiral Hiraga Yuzuru [retained copy of lecture manuscript]
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This item is a retained copy of a “Top Secret” lecture manuscript dated December 18, Taisho 13, by Navy Shipbuilding Rear Admiral Hiraga Yuzuru, discussing the general trends in warship design among the great powers after the Washington Treaty in comparison with the ship types of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Centering on the new British battleships Nelson and Rodney, it refers to Nagato, Mutsu, Kaga, Akagi, Yubari, the Myoko class, and others, and examines capital ships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, new steel materials, defensive capability, speed, and displacement limits. Issued December 18, 1924; held by the University of Tokyo Kashiwa Library. Keywords: Hiraga Yuzuru, Washington Treaty, warship design, Nelson, Rodney, Nagato, Kaga, aircraft carrier, cruiser, new steel materialsAuto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.
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60320101
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[On the General Trends in Warship Design among the Great Powers]