![]() ![]() She had a beam of 28.96 metres (95 ft) and a draught of 9 metres (29 ft 6 in). Mutsu had a length of 201.17 metres (660 ft) between perpendiculars and 215.8 metres (708 ft) overall. ![]() Much of the wreck was scrapped after the war, but some artefacts and relics are on display in Japan, and a small portion of the ship remains where she was sunk. The navy dispersed the survivors in an attempt to conceal the sinking in the interest of morale in Japan. The IJN investigation into the cause of her loss concluded that it was the work of a disgruntled crew member. That June, one of her aft magazines detonated while she was at anchor, sinking the ship with the loss of 1,121 crew and visitors. Other than participating in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942, where she did not see any significant combat, Mutsu spent most of the first year of the Pacific War in training. The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake. Mutsu (陸奥) was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I. ![]()
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