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Henry Spencer wrote:
Despite the importance of things like gunnery control, it was impossible
to provide substantial armor that high up. They had to settle for
redundancy (meaning still more superstructure to accommodate duplicates of
important things) and firmly crossed fingers.


I checked all the drawings in my Warships Of The Japanese Imperial Navy
book; the only Japanese battleship outside Fuso and Yamashiro that ever
equaled that height as measured from the waterline was Nagato (the IJN
flagship) after she had her radar added (I don't know if the other ship
of her class - Mutsu, ever had radar fitted.)
Lots of data about Yamashiro and her superstructure he
http://www.steelnavy.com/HM%20Yamashiro.htm

Pat

Christopher Manteuffel wrote:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/012707.jpg

The results of USS Michigan sailing through a storm in January 1918.

Chris Manteuffel



Ouch! I hope no one was up there when that happened.
Cage masts or tripod masts? The Navy debates:
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/cagvtrip.htm

Pat

On Mar 27, 4:46 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Christopher Manteuffel wrote:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/012707.jpg

The results of USS Michigan sailing through a storm in January 1918.

Ouch! I hope no one was up there when that happened.

DANFS says that six men were killed and 13 injured (five seriously
enough to be transfered to hospital ship SOLACE) in the accident.

Chris Manteuffel

Christopher Manteuffel wrote:
Ouch! I hope no one was up there when that happened.


DANFS says that six men were killed and 13 injured (five seriously
enough to be transfered to hospital ship SOLACE) in the accident.



I found a photo looking up the inside of the cage mast on our "concrete
battleship", Fort Drum: http://tinyurl.com/yuapld
I don't know if you walk around on the grid, if it's structural, or if
it's a safety net of some sort in case you fall while ascending the cage
mast.

Pat