Talk:4th Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)

chronology problems
The article says (in several places) that the Fourth Fleet was disbanded in 1905 and reconsistuted in 1937. However, it also describes a "Fourth Fleet Incident" in 1935. Either the 1937 date is wrong, or there was another fourth fleet in existance in between 1905 and 1937. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.220.37 (talk) 21:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)


 * According to the Japanese Wikipedia article on the said 'Fourth Fleet Incident', the 'Fourth Fleet' in this case was formed ad hoc in September 1935 specifically for the purpose of naval exercise. The CO of this 'fleet' was VADM Matsushita Hajime but you wouldn't find anything about his career as the commanding officer of the Fourth Fleet. Apparently the Imperial Japanese Navy themselves didn't count this one as a real formation. 222.109.32.222 (talk) 14:37, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Fourth Fleet Incident
This is described as being kept a secret, but the Western newspapers seem to have got a very prompt and reasonably accurate description - the next day, 27 September, the Liverpool Echo (BNA) gave a very precise death toll (one dead, ten injured, 52 missing) and named several ships including highlighting the damage to Hatsuyuki & Yugiri. Some of this is credited to an official communique via Reuters, which suggests that there was certainly no particular attempt to keep it all secret.

Was it perhaps that the structural deficiencies uncovered afterwards were kept secret? Or was it suppressed in the domestic media but they were more relaxed about overseas reports? Andrew Gray (talk) 18:53, 28 November 2022 (UTC)