These would prove to be the most heavily armored warships ever built, while each would also be armed with 46 cm (18.1-inch) naval rifle guns. Named after the former Japanese province of Musashi, she was one of three Yamato -class battleships constructed for the Imperial Japanese Navy beginning in the late 1930s. The efforts to find the wreck site had begun 11 years earlier and were based on four different sinking positions in the Sibuyan Sea, including both the “official” Japanese and U.S. Almost half of the Musashi‘s 2,399-man crew was lost. Allied forces sunk the Musashi on October 24, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, considered the largest naval battle of World War II and quite possibly the largest naval battle in history. The 73,000-ton (66,224 metric tons) Musashi and sister ship Yamato had been the largest battleships the world had ever known. Japanese naval historian Kazushige Todaka confirmed its identification. Octopus, at a depth of approximately 3,280 feet (one kilometer) in Philippine waters. The sister ship of the Yamato was discovered by Allen’s team aboard his motor yacht, the M.Y. Battleship Musashi – The Yamato’s Sister Ship Met a Similar Fate – In March 2015, following years of meticulous historical research and seafloor terrain analysis, a team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced that they had found one of the most impressive battleships ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Musashi.
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