戦艦武蔵

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Two reports, the later one first.

(1) Mari Yamaguchi 山口 真理, Japanese Battleship Blew Up Under Water, Footage Suggests. Associated Press, Mar 13, 2015.
www.mercurynews.com/california/c ... pan-wwii-battleship

Note:
(a) Japanese battleship Musashi 武蔵
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Musashi
(Commissioned Aug 5, 1942; the second ship of the Yamato class; She and her sister ship, Yamato 大和 [Dec 16, 1941- Apr 7, 1945 sunk by US carrier-based bombers; Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal 呉 海軍 工廠; In "much of 1944, moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats"], were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, [either battleship] displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load; Named after Japan's ancient Musashi Province 武蔵国)

(b) “The Musashi * * * sank in the Sibuyan Sea in the central Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf”
(i) Sibuyan Sea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibuyan_Sea
(ii) Battle of Leyte Gulf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
(Oct 23-26, 1944; is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history alongside the Battle of Red Cliffs 赤壁 in 208 CE and the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE

in Japanese: レイテ沖海戦 (where the katakana is pronounced “reite”)

(c) "’The wreck is actually very damaged,’ said David Mearns, a marine scientist on the team. ‘It appears she suffered at least one, if not two, magazine explosions which would have sheered [sic; should be ‘sheared’] off the bow and the stern, and its entire middle section of its super-structure.’"

(d) “Historian Kazushige TODATA 戶高 一成, head of the Yamato Museum”
(i) Yamato Museum  大和ミュージアム
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_Museum
(a nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum 呉市海事歴史科学館 in Kure, Hiroshima 広島県 呉市)

Quote: “It is nicknamed the Yamato Museum due to the display in the lobby of the large model ship Yamato Hiroba, a 1/10 scale model of the battleship Yamato.
(ii) The English-language Wikipedia page is WRONG about “Yamato Hiroba.” It is the name of the lobby, not of the model.
(A) Japanese English dictionary
hiroba 広場 【ひろば】 (n): "plaza; (public) square; piazza; forum; open space"
(B) Japanese-language Wikipedia page for this museum says, “入口を入ってすぐの『大和ひろば』には、実物の10分の1サイズの戦艦大和の模型が展示されている。”

translation: Right inside the entrance is “Yamato Hiroba,” where 1/10-sized model of Yamato battleship is on display

* The same Japanese Wiki page also includes section 3.1 市名の由来, where the third of the three theories is “中国三国時代の呉(孫権が建国）の子孫に由来し、戦乱などを逃れて呉から日本列島に亡命して呉周辺に住んでいた中国や朝鮮半島からの渡来人を「くれ人」と呼んでいたため。呉(ご）を訓読み(和訓)して「くれ」と呼んだ。

rough translation: The city name is derived from 呉 of the Three Kingdoms. The 呉 descendants fled wars and escaped to Japan. The Japanese pronunciation {“kure”) of 呉 is somehow prefered over the Chinese pronunciation (“go”).   

(e) “Shigeru NAKAJIMA 中島 茂, a 94-year-old former electrical technician on the Musashi”

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(2) Press release: Paul G Allen Locates Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi. Mar 4, 2015.
www.paulallen.com/Interests/Expl ... sashi-Press-Release

Note: “his yacht, M/Y Octopus”
(a) Octopus (yacht)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)
(2003- )
(b) ship prefix
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix
(section 1 Generic (Merchant Navy) prefixes: MY   Motor Yacht)