the light cruiser , broke down on 28 March and Nagato attempted to take her in tow, but one of her boilers malfunctioned and the ship ran out of fuel in bad weather. The ship had a list of seven degrees to port by the time tugboats from Eniwetok arrived on 30 March. Towed at a speed of , the ship reached Eniwetok on 4 April where she received temporary repairs. On her trip to Bikini in May, Nagato reached . Operation Crossroads began with the first blast (Test Able), an air burst on 1 July; she was from ground zero and was only lightly damaged. A skeleton crew boarded Nagato to assess the damage and prepare her for the next test on 25 July. As a test, they operated one of her boilers for 36 hours without any problems. For Test Baker, an underwater explosion, the ship was positioned from ground zero. Nagato rode out the tsunami from the explosion with little apparent damage; she had a slight starboard list of two degrees after the tsunami dissipated. A more thorough assessment could not be made because she was dangerously radioactive. Her list gradually increased over the next five days and she capsized and sank during the night of 29/30 July. The wreck is upside down and her most prominent features are her four propellers, at a depth of below the surface. She has become a scuba diving destination in recent years and The Times named Nagato as one of the top ten wreck diving sites in the world in 2007. Notes Footnotes References Further reading External links Maritimequest.com: Nagato photo gallery 1919 ships Artificial reefs Nagato-class battleships Ships built by Kure Naval Arsenal Ships involved in Operation Crossroads Ships sunk as targets Maritime incidents in 1946 Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan World War II battleships of Japan Top 10 dive sites