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NH 89175 Hiei

Photo #: NH 89175 Hiei
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Title: Hiei
Description: (Japanese training ship, ex-battlecruiser, 1914) In port, August 1933, with bedding airing on her lifelines. Her broadside battery of six-inch guns had been removed by this time. Note the recesses in her hull side where side armor had been located prior to her conversion to a training ship. The original photograph came from Office of Naval Intelligence files. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 89175
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