Nagato, named for Nagato Province, was a super-dreadnought battleship
built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1910s. The lead
ship of her class, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great
Kantō earthquake in 1923. The ship was modernized in 1934-36 with
improvements to her armor and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in
the pagoda mast style. Nagato briefly participated in the Second
Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She covered the withdrawal
of the attacking ships and did not participate in the attack itself.