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Friday, 1 December 2017

Japanese battleships sunk at Yokohama, Japan according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated Thursday 6 September 1923

Amagi-class

An item dated Peking, China 5th reported that two large Japanese battleships were sunk when on Saturday a tidal wave Yokohama, Japan harassed.(1)

Note
1. The Great Kanto earthquake on Saturday 1 September 1923. The battle cruiser Amagi lying in a dock to be converted into a aircraft carrier was such heavily damaged that she was to be broken up.