According to the Allen team, she’s 3,887 feet/1,185m  deep, or almost 3/4 mile down (1.185 km, gotta love metrics here! After eight years of research in three countries, the team of Paul Allen has found the MUSASHI and are currently surveying the wreck (or rather the large debris field near the two largest parts of the MUSASHI remaining.) The forward superstructure and funnel is detached from the rest of the ship and lies on its port side. On 23 April, his cremated remains were flown back to Truk and placed in his cabin on board Musashi. WELCOME TO THE INTERNET'S YAMATO & MUSASHI BATTLESHIP PHOTO ARCHIVE! Musashi, like other Japanese warships, did not have its name on its sides, thereby making it more difficult for divers and shipwreck hunters to find her.

The trap was set, and sprung. The ship was hit by three more torpedoes, opening up her starboard bow[28] and reducing her speed to 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Aboard, 1,023 of her crew of 2,399 went down with the battleship. Wreckage During 1982, a Japanese expedition searched for Yamato and found some wreckage but it could not be identified. The unconditional surrender the Allies were determined to gain was unthinkable and so Japan used every resource to delay, to push back, to bloody every battlefield, to gain leverage for a treaty, not a surrender. But she kept taking in water, it was hopeless. However, what happened to it while going under remained unknown until now. The only one what is missing until now: the proof of the last given coordinates at: 13°6'58"N 122°31'57"E Up on the upper right you can also see a scale model of the MY OCTOPUS, the ship that’s the base for the ongoing survey of MUSASHI  (the size of the wreck insignias are not in scale to each other, but the depth is at the correct scale, and OCTOPUS is correct scale for the depth.) Musashi was still making 16 knots on her three remaining props. [20] Musashi was fitted out at nearby Sasebo, with Captain Kaoru Arima assigned as her commanding officer. Haha, from shelf queen to museum piece! Now it's exhibit junk. Japanese battleship Musashi was last seen sinking down into Philippine waters after it was rammed by torpedoes. They counterflood and fire-control for all they are worth. Her speed was reduced to 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph), her main steering engine was temporarily knocked out and her rudder was briefly jammed 15 degrees to port. Only a few warships were allowed to carry the said seal and for the discovery of the Musashi, it was one of the key reasons why Japanese experts and surviving crew members of the said battleship were convinced the remains found by Paul Allen’s team was indeed that of the massive war vessel. So as dawn broke, of the thirty-one warships, twenty-six remained. [5] Musashi had a length of 244 metres (800 ft 6 in) between perpendiculars and 263 metres (862 ft 10 in) overall.

HIJMS Musashi was the second member of the Yamato Class of SuperBattleships built by the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built under the utmost secrecy to be larger, faster and more heavily armored and armed than any Battleship in history. (est. As of now, the team is working with the governments of the Japan and the Philippines over the remains of the battleship. The turbines were designed to produce a total of 150,000 shaft horsepower (110,000 kW), using steam provided by 12 Kampon water-tube boilers, to give her a maximum speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph). [11], On 17 May, in response to American attacks on Attu Island, Musashi—together with the carrier Hiyō, two heavy cruisers, and nine destroyers—sortied to the northern Pacific. If all went well, the American war fleet would intercept the Northern Force’s communications, and head out to intercept, leaving Musashi, Yamato, and her sisters to sneak in behind and  strike the landing force, driving the now-undefended Americans off the Philippines. I completed it back in June 2015 and it's at the Lexington Museum now. [36] In the live streaming video tour conducted by the expedition team, a mount for the seal of the Imperial Japanese Navy—a chrysanthemum made out of teak, long rotted away—can be seen amid the debris. He also knew that, unless the US, Britain, and the Netherlands (the major naval and colonial powers in the Pacific in 1940) were knocked out so hard and fast they sued for peace (and left Japan alone with all her new territories), Japan would ultimately be doomed. Counter-flooding reduces the list to just 1 degree. The video also showed damage made by U.S. torpedoes, including a warped bow and hits under the ship's main gun. Rest in Peace. [26], The following day, the submarine USS Dace torpedoed and sank the heavy cruiser Maya near Palawan. [33], The discovery of the wreck beneath the surface of the Sibuyan Sea raised issues when the local government of Romblon (which has jurisdiction over the area where the wreck was found), though Governor Eduardo Firmalo stated that while he welcomed the discovery of the ship, the provincial government, and even the Philippine Coast Guard, were not aware that Allen and his team had an ongoing expedition in the area. Laid down in clear violation of the Washington Naval Treaty at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard on March 29th, 1938 and officially commissioned into service on August 5th, 1942, Musashi displaced a staggering 72,800 long tons at full load and was armed with nine 18.1 inch (40cm) main guns mounted in triple turrets, each of which weighed more than a contemporary Destroyer. The first scout plane to find Musashi and her force was from carrier Intrepid, so her planes got first crack at the two biggest battleships afloat. 08/2008) MAJOR UPDATE - 08/2019 WITH DOZENS OF NEW HIGH RES PHOTOS! Steve... Thats great! At 7:53pm roughly four hours after the last attack, Musashi capsized and sank into the Visayan Sea at roughly Lat 13° 7N, Long 122° 32E. Also a brief bio of yourself as the model maker and an outline of how you actually did the build and what prompted you to build this model……. Our community is FREE to join. [10] The ship was also provided with two twin mounts for the licence-built 13.2-millimetre (0.52 in) Type 93 anti-aircraft machine guns, one on each side of the bridge.

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