The captured Japanese battleship <i>Nagato</i> steams towards Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, in March 1946. She departed Yokosuka, Japan, for Eniwetok under the command of Captain W.J. Whipple with an American crew of about 180 men supplementing her Japanese crew. The ship was only capable of a speed of 10 knots from her two operating propeller shafts. Her hull had not been repaired from the underwater damage sustained during the attack on 18 July 1945 and she leaked enough that her pumps could not keep up. Her consort, the light cruiser <i>Sakawa</i>, 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 1 knot, the ship reached Eniwetok on 4 April where she received temporary repairs. On her trip to Bikini in May, <i>Nagato</i> reached 13 knots.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo 111-SC-421091 (WPA-46-65008)
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