Development of the Imperial Japanese Navy Battle Cruiser (Part 4)

However -- Soon, Mr. Hiraga was opposed to the naval upper levels by the thing of the arms of a battle cruiser.

As a result, the post of the design section was resigned..
And Mr.Fujimoto of 37 years old inherited it's post.

Henceforth, as for 11 years, Mr.Fujimoto will take charge of the design of a warship.
The duty of the beginning of Mr.Fujimoto was reconstruction of the No. 3 ship and a No. 4 ship of the 'Furutaka' class. It was reinforcement of arms.
And the second duty was change of a design of the 'Myokoh' class.

Furthermore, he started the design of a new style destroyer.

The destroyer which he designed is high freeboard and ship's bottom is flatness..
Now, the type of a flat bottom is natural. However, it was epoch-making discovery those days.

The imperial navy was set as the military secret with this Fujimoto's theory.
Battle curiser'Mogami' class, Yamato class and the VLCC of present has inherited his theory.

Soon,
Official trial operation of 'Myokoh' of designed by Mr.Hiraga was carried out.
However, the serious defect for the main guns was discovered.

For this reason, change of a large-scale design is needed of hull and arms.
Mr.Fujimoto investigates the cause of a serious defect.