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Name This AE...196 - 1/12/2009 7:28:18 PM

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???

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/12/2009 7:37:07 PM

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Jintsu?

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/12/2009 7:46:10 PM

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Kinu?

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/12/2009 8:47:32 PM

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Its Natori, at Brunei maybe.

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/12/2009 11:10:49 PM

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Where ever it is, it's a good sized port. There are rail lines on the dock. I would say it's somewhere in the Home Islands.

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/12/2009 11:33:16 PM

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It's Sendai, Naka, or Jintsu; you can just see that the foremost funnel is higher than the others, and that combined with the size of the bridge structure is characteristic for that class.

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 12:04:11 AM

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I don't think this is a Naka class CL. If it were, I would expect to see some sign of the cutter + davits immediately abaft of the port gun mount.

Moreover, note the spoon-shaped bow. Sendai had one, but she was only Naka that did, so far as I know. All the Nagaras had spoon-shaped bows until Abukuma's 1930 collision, when she received one similar in shape to that of Naka and Jintsu.

So I think this is more likely to be a Nagara class CL. Could well be Natori. To be different, I'll guess this is Yura.

The skyline suggests to me that this is Yokosuka, looking south from a point just north of the principal dry docks.

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 3:28:01 AM

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what are the row of crane-looking things running along the side amidships?

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 3:35:35 AM

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Torpedo loaders? Did Japanese CL really only have one turret in the bow?

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 4:11:12 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

I don't think this is a Naka class CL.� If it were, I would expect to see some sign of the cutter + davits immediately abaft of the port gun mount.

Moreover, note the spoon-shaped bow.� Sendai had one, but she was only Naka that did, so far as I know.� All the Nagaras had spoon-shaped bows until Abukuma's 1930 collision, when she received one similar in shape to that of Naka and Jintsu.

So I think this is more likely to be a Nagara class CL.� Could well be Natori.� To be different, I'll guess this is Yura.

The skyline suggests to me that this is Yokosuka, looking south from a point just north of the principal dry docks.

And unless its a bad angle I count three funnels not four. Naka's had four funnels. But which one???

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 5:09:22 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Torpedo loaders? Did Japanese CL really only have one turret in the bow?

She has 2 turrets back-to-back on the Foredeck, but B turret is in the shadow.

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And unless its a bad angle I count three funnels not four. Naka's had four funnels. But which one???

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Reason I think it is Natori is because of the placement of the search-light directors on the bridge structure, which is different than her sisters.

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 12:36:09 PM

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Here is the entire Nagara class: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/nagara-cl-schem.htm

The ship has the opening in the railing just forward of the stacks that the Natori, Yura, and Kinu had. It's pre-war or early war, there is no radar on the forward mast.

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RE: Name This AE...196 - 1/13/2009 6:38:09 PM

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Natori, it is