Thanks for your responses, David and Dan!
DavidK wrote:
This photo (of tripod mainmast looking aft at Fubuki?) appears on p 121 of Mechanisms of Japanese Heavy Cruisers, where it is identified as Aoba-1942 (just to muddy the water). Ditto for Gakken 44, p.85.
Dave K
This photo has been discussed earlier in this thread and identified by Mucho as Kinugasa because of her funnel piping arrangement. Although this arrangement is slightly different here than on the diagram, it´s still definitely closer to Kinugasa and different from Aoba at any time, so I consent to Mucho´s statement.
DavidK wrote:
I don't have the background to date this image (or even ensure it is Kinugasa), but it lacks the range finder dials, has enclosed HA guns and definitely has a seaplane catapult. So I'll let you decide
http://www.naviearmatori.net/eng/foto-189955-1.htmlDaveK
Good point about the missing rangefinder dials! There is a VERY similar photo in Lacroix & Wells Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War on page 80 identified as Kinugasa in late 1936, but that one still has the dials in place. So the one I posted from naviearmatori.net should be dated later, but definitely before the modernization in October 1938 when the aircraft handling platform was added aft of mainmast, the aft main battery director relocated forward of mainmast, new torpedo armament installed and other changes made.
Dan K wrote:
All the photos are from a SOTW volume called "Combined Fleet at its Zenith" which was originally shot in the fall of 1941 as part of a publicity record of the fleet. Sadly, none of these photos are particularly clear, as they were shot at a distance from Kako, if I recall correctly.
(This Dan´s comment relates to the last batch of photos I uploaded, not the one from naviearmatori.net) You remember it exactly, as always, Dan. There is at least one more photo taken from Kako at the same time (reprinted in Lacroix & Wells p. 258), but even less of Kinugasa can be seen on it. Its caption says these maneuvers of Sentai 6 happenned on October 18, 1941.
It seems I´ll have to use artistic licence once again on the funnel piping
. Thanks!
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