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Photo # NH 73015:  Smokestack and bridge on the Japanese cruiser Aoba, 1936

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- JAPANESE NAVY SHIPS --

Aoba (Cruiser, 1927-1945) --
On Board & Distant Views and Drawings


This page features views taken on board the Japanese cruiser Aoba, distant views of her and drawings related to the ship.

For other images related to the Japanese cruiser Aoba, see:

  • Aoba (Japanese cruiser, 1927-1945).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 73015

    Aoba
    (Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927)

    View of the ship's forward smokestack and bridge, seen from the port side of the upper deck, 1936.
    Note searchlight at right.

    Donation of Kazutoshi Hando, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97732

    Aoba
    (Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927)

    View looking forward from the bridge, while the ship was underway prior to World War II.
    Note her forward 20cm twin gun turrets.

    The original halftone photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 167KB; 680 x 630 pixels

    Note:
    The original print is somewhat disfigured by having the emulsion ripped away to the right of the ship image.

     
    Photo #: NH 97733

    Aoba
    and Kinugasa
    (Japanese Heavy Cruisers, 1927)

    World War II era recognition drawings.
    These drawings do not reflect changes made in the ships' 1938-40 modernizations.
    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 900 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 86308

    Kako
    and Furutaka
    (Japanese Heavy Cruisers, 1926) -- upper drawings;
    and
    Aoba
    (Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927) -- lower drawing

    World War II era recognition drawings, showing Kako and Furutaka after their late 1930s modernization and Aoba as she was in 1945.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 134KB; 1200 x 850 pixels

     


    The photograph presented below shows Aoba in the left background of a view of another ship.

    Photo #: NH 75481

    Furutaka
    (Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1926)

    At anchor off Shinagawa, Japan, on 4-10 October 1935.
    The three bands painted on her after smokestack signify that she is the third ship of the 6th Sentai (squadron). The cruisers Aoba and Kinugasa, also members of Sentai 6, are in the left distance.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For other images related to the Japanese cruiser Aoba, see:

  • Aoba (Japanese cruiser, 1927-1945).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 9 November 2001