Japanese ships

[Josh Beckett]

Did any Japanese ships survive the war, and do any survive today?

[MikeW]

An battleship which fought in the Russo-Japanese war survived

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa

Nagato was sunk in the Binkini Blast.

[Josh Beckett]

Too bad the Nagato didnt survive, why did we have to use peoples ships for Atomic tests, that is wrong

[Chet Sowersby]

Josh,
The surrendered Axis ships were of no use to us. We even used some our own ships for these tests.

Chet

[MikeW]

If you look further into the advanced Japanese subs which carried an aircraft, they were blown up after they were transfered to Pearl with a skeleton crew.

They were blown up because we didn't want the Soviet Commies to get their hands on them.

If the Yamamoto or Mushai survived it would be fun drop an atom bomb on

[coastie]

Too bad the Nagato didnt survive, why did we have to use peoples ships for Atomic tests, that is wrong

Primarily they lost and in the process of dis-arming the Axis powers the vessels were used for tests or scrap.

When you're the loser no one wants a memorial to failure. Also, if for example the Americans wanted ships to use in the fleet it would have been very expensive to convert some/most ships over and where would the spare parts come from?

[MikeW]

Primarily they lost and in the process of dis-arming the Axis powers the vessels were used for tests or scrap.

When you're the loser no one wants a memorial to failure. Also, if for example the Americans wanted ships to use in the fleet it would have been very expensive to convert some/most ships over and where would the spare parts come from?

Actually the US, England, and France, used ex-German Z-class destroyers

http://www.pt-boats.net/enforum/view...2344f550f16706

[blinky]

A lot of Japanese ships survived the war, several were used to bring Japanese troops back to Japan. Several small boats were used well into the 50's and 60's. It's a pity none of the destroyers survived to today.

[Josh Beckett]

Do any of those Z class destroyers survive today

Why did we destroy those Japanese subs, we didnt have to give them to Russia, what would they have done had we not given the Subs.

[theinglebaby23]

I watched a discovery channel show on the nuclear testing on those ships. The funny thing was, the nuke didn't sink most of 'em!

[Josh Beckett]

I wonder what happened to the rest of the ships that didnt sink.

[blinky]

No Japanese destroyers survive today that I'm aware of, but I might be wrong.

The subs were destroyed because they were considered out dated technology. They pretty much gleaned all the information they needed from them and were more or less considered junk after that and used as targets. We had a huge (and I mean HUGE) surplus of our own ships after the war and the last thing the navy needed was to maintain captured boats. Many served an important function after the war in that they were used as real life test beds for new weapons, I think the I-400 was sunk testing new torpedo technology. Plus it's fun blowing **** up

[coastie]

I watched a discovery channel show on the nuclear testing on those ships. The funny thing was, the nuke didn't sink most of 'em!

I know this isn't about Jpanese ships but the Prinz Eugen was a taget ship and didn't sink but ended capsized after a typhoon on Kwajelein atholl. I last saw it in 1987 I think it's still there.

[Josh Beckett]

I should go see it someday, is there a picture of it?

[coastie]

I should go see it someday, is there a picture of it?

Try this link:

http://maps.pomocnik.com/satellite-maps/?map=1543

There are a lot of sunken Japanese ships in the atoll and they offer diving trips to the ships. When I was there I was told that several divers had died getting hung up/lost inside the ship.