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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 25, 2008.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that when politics threatened funding for the Fuji class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1893, Emperor Meiji offered to pay from the expenses of the Imperial Household himself?
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main armament loading angle

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"The guns were loaded at a fixed angle of 1°" is almost certainly a typo. Heavy guns of that era were invariably loaded at max elevation, since that put the breech end of the gun below the top of the heavy armor of the barbette. This is confirmed by the graphic of the turret, which shows the rammer and loading tray in line with the gun barrel at 15 degrees elevation.

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