Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Yamato & Yamatosaurus coloring pages in English

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Today there are two new drawings. 

I am a military history enthusiast and a dinosaur enthusiast. 

So when I heard that there was a dinosaur named Yamatosaurus I 

decided to draw the huge Japanese battleship called the Yamato.

I also drew this new duckbilled dinosaur named after the ship.

It is called Yamatosaurus. 

Note to English readers:  I will be getting this translated into Japanese. 

IJN Yamato

The Imperial Japanese Navy Yamato was the biggest battleship ever constructed.  It was 863 feet or 263 meters long.  It had a beam or width of  137 feet or 39 meters.  It weighed over 71,000 tons.  23,000 tons of the weight was the ship's 25-inch or 65.5 cm thick armor.  It was armored with many smaller anti-aircraft guns and it had 9 huge primary weapons.  These guns had an 18-inch or 46 cm bore.  They were bigger than any guns on US Navy battleships because American ships had to be able to go through the Panama Canal. So the Yamato could be wide enough to have 18-inch guns.  US Navy ships could not be wide enough to carry such huge guns.   The result is that the Yamato could have fired on US Navy ships before the American battleships could even fire back - because the range of the 18-inch guns was longer than any American battleship.  

However, the plane proved to be the modern naval weapon in World War II and battleships were in some ways obsolete.  However, the Yamato did engage some US Navy ships and even helped sink a small escort carrier.  But carrier planes proved to be the doom of the Yamato.  

Later the Yamato was sent with a few escort vessels to Okinawa.  It was spotted by a US Navy sub and by search planes.  Then it was attacked by 100s of US Navy planes.  Those planes included dive bombers, torpedo bombers, and fighter planes.  Since there were no Japanese fighter planes around the US Navy planes strafed the ships first to suppress the antiaircraft fire.  Then the carrier-based dive bombers and torpedo bombers severely damaged Yamato and it appears that as it was capsizing its forward ammunition magazines exploded.  The fireball looked like a small nuclear weapon and even destroyed some of the still-attacking US Navy planes.  The battleship was no match for armed aircraft.  It was a terrible loss of life. 

I have chosen to draw the Yamato in a technical drawing, rather than when it was in battle.  I have simplified the ship in my drawing quite a bit.  

Yamatosaurus

Yamatosaurus was a primitive Hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur.  It was related to Lambeosaurus.  It may have been an ancestor to Lamberosaurus.  It seems to not have had a crest like Lamberosaurus.  It was smaller than many Hadrosaurs and between 23-26 feet or 7-8 meters.  It weighed between 4-5 metric tons.  That makes it as big as an Asian Elephant. There were Hadrosaurs that weighed 3 x as much.  

My son-in-law said that this amazing name should be for a gigantic dinosaur like a Sauropod since the Yamato was the biggest battleship ever built.  By the way, the full name for this dinosaur is Yamatosaurus izanogii.  Yamato is an ancient name for Japan and Izanogi is a creation god in Japanese mythology.  

NOTE:  These drawings are found, in printable form, in 2 different places.  The Battleship Yamato drawing is found by clicking on the button label:  "Vehicles and Military Vehicles."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for the printable page. (You have to click on the last title, that is if the title  says:  "IJN Yamato."

The drawing of Yamatosaurus is found by clicking on the "Paleontology" button and then scrolling to the bottom of the Mesozoic Animals section.  Then click on the title if it says "Yamatosaurus."