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Posted by Peter Ewell
on 11/7/2009, 11:52 am
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This week’s conversion provides a companion to last week’s Shigure and was completed at about the same time. Yamagumo illustrates the mid-war AA-enhancement received by members of the surviving Kagero class from about 1943 on. The conversion was relatively straightforward and involved:
- Removing X mount and filing the deck beneath smooth.
- Fashioning a new deckhouse with offset tubs in the place where X mount used to be. This was made from balsa with bulwarks made from sheet copper.
- Building a tub forward of the bridge in exactly the same manner as last week on Shigure.
- Scratch-building four triple 25mm AA mounts and a double. Two of the triples were then mounted in the tubs on the after deckhouse and two replaced the twins on the platform abreast of the second stack. The twin went in the newly constructed tub forward of the bridge.
- Scratch-building eleven single 25mm mounts in the same way as for Shigure and installing them at various locations on the main deck (I am again grateful for the assistance of the J-Board regarding their location).
- Reworking the tripod foremast as in Shigure and adding radar and crosstrees.
Not as illustrious as Shigure, perhaps, but a destroyer with a solid record of achievement until being caught in a role-reversal torpedoing at Surigao. Witnesses on Shigure watched her go down.
Best to all.
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