Development of the Imperial Japanese Navy Battle Cruiser (Part 6)

Fujimoto of a shipbuilding official started investigation.
This result, 'Nachi' class is arranging the heavy gun turrets to the both ends of a long and slender hull.

For this reason, a twist arises in a hull. and a center line of hull shifts for diflection. This was a conclusion.

And the following improvement was added to the 'Nachi' class.
The distance of the gun turret between a bow and a stern was shortened 8.5m.
However, in a battle cruiser, in order to obtain high speed, a boiler division occupies the half of a hull.
For this reason, the structure of a bridge will be located on a boiler room.
The big box was placed on the boiler room like 'Furutaka'. and the bridge was built on this box.

Here is the reason with 'Nachi' class huge bridge.
A huge bridge is a model of a ship which is not looked at the battle cruiser of the navy of a foreign country.

The foreign navy named 'Pagoda of Castle' to the bridge of the warship of Japan.
In addition, the cruising range was reinforced to 8,500 sea miles by 14kts.