Photo #: NH 89175
Hiei (Japanese training ship, ex-battlecruiser, 1914)
In port, August 1933, with bedding airing on her lifelines.
Her broadside battery of six-inch guns had been removed by this
time.
Note the recesses in her hull side where side armor had been
located prior to her conversion to a training ship.
The original photograph came from Office of Naval Intelligence
files.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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