What is Japanese battleship Musashi?
{{Nihongo|'''''Musashi'''''|武蔵}}, named after [[Musashi Province|the former Japanese province]],<ref>Silverstone, p. 334</ref> was one of three {{Sclass-|Yamato|battleship}}. Four ships were begun, but only two were completed as battleships. The third, {{ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Shinano||2}}, was completed as an aircraft carrier and the fourth was [[ship breaking|scrapped]] before completion.<ref>Garzke & Dulin, pp. 74–80, 84</ref>built for the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The ''Yamato''-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing almost {{convert|72000|LT|t}} fully loaded and armed with nine {{convert|46|cm|in|1|adj=on}} main guns. [[File:Musashi bow view.png|thumb|This is a image from the bow of the famous Musashi]] == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Warships]]