Talk:Japanese cruiser Mogami (1934)

number of aircraft on board
Here in the article it is stated that: "Aircraft carried: (initial) 3 x Aichi E13A floatplanes (final) 11 x Aichi E13A floatplanes!" according to "Conways All The Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946" page 190, it was planned for 11 aircraft (type not specified) and actually assigned were 6 but hardly ever more than 2 on board! 87.145.85.85 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:16, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

final armament
Wouldn't final armament be six 203mm (3 x 2) since turrets 4 and 5 were removed to allow more seaplanes? Naaman Brown (talk) 19:26, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

81 SBDs from USS Enterprise and USS Hornet
This is an unlikely number given the SBD losses of June 4th and suspiciously identical to the number of fatalities. Enterprise fielded 11 SBDs in that particular strike.

"The attack group was led by Lieutenant SHORT, VS-5, and consisted of 31 SBD's from VB-3, VS-5, VB-6, VS-6; 3 TBD's from VT-6 and 12 F4F-4's from VF-6." Source Scouting Six Action Report: http://www.cv6.org/ship/logs/action19420604-vs6.htm

Jp421 (talk) 02:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Collision between Mikuma and Mogami
The collision between Mikuma and Mogami seems impossible to reconstruct from the description. It seems Mikuma would have been struck on the starboard side if the rest of the description is correct. Please see the Mikuma talk page. Tupelo the typo fixer (talk) 18:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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Airgroup
The article noted only E13A (Type Zero Reconnaissance Seaplane)s carried by the ship. This was not the case, as she commissioned before the E13A entered service.

Initially, it is clear that she carried at least two Kawanishi E7K (Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane)s, as seen in photo on article, possibly three - although there may have been an alternative model carried to make up the balance, since it was not unusual for Japanese cruisers to embark more than one type of seaplane for various reconnaissance and spotting duties. Very possibly a Nakajima E8N (Type 95 Reconnaissance Seaplane) may have been carried at her first commissioning. It is not clear.

The E13A and Mitsubishi F1M (Type Zero Observation Seaplane) were probably shipped as replacements for the earlier models from 1941 on, as they entered service. As both types were seen aboard Mogami in her aircraft cruiser guise (see photo posted on article) and both were given the designation 'Type Zero' (although having different roles), this would account for the confusion which resulted in the article stating that her final airgroup was of 11 E13As. It seems not unlikely that even some E16As may have been assigned to the ship very late in her career, although as stated above, there seems to be a lack of consensus on how many aircraft were actually being carried by the time of Surigao Strait.

This subject probably warrants more research. 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:D1D8:D9D9:FF09:D19 (talk) 12:53, 1 March 2023 (UTC)