[yarddog]

If I remember right, the Japanese intended to beach it and use it as artillery.

Either it or the Yamato got hit earlier by a single torpedo from an American sub and almost sank. The Japanese put it in dry dock and corrected a serious flaw in it’s armor’s design.

[PLMerite]

“If I remember right, the Japanese intended to beach it and use it as artillery.”

Yeah, I think it was a case of not enough fuel to get back to Japan.

[Tallguy]

No. Your thinking of the last sortie of the Yamato during the naval battle off Okinawa in 1945.