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Japanese battleship Hiei at Yokosuka, Japan, 25 Jul 1933	Training ship Hiei in port, Japan, Aug 1933; note bedding airing on lifelines, lack of 6-in buns, and some missing armor plating

Furutaka with her rails manned, probably during the naval review off Yokohama, Japan, 25 Aug 1933; stripes on smokestake noted her membership in the 6th Sentai (Squadron)	Kaga, Hiei, and Nagato during the annual naval review at Yokohama, Japan, 25 Aug 1933

All three of the United States Navy’s aircraft carriers at the time, Langley, Saratoga, and Lexington, along with battleships and cruisers at anchor in Colon, Panama Canal Zone, roughly 1935.	Barham in the mid-1930s, following her 1931-34 reconstruction

Battleship Lorraine, 1934	Battleship Mutsu before her 1934-1936 modernization, circa early 1930s

Battleships Fuso (foreground) and Nagato (background) during maneuvers, 1934	Cuttlefish underway, circa 1934

Émile Bertin, 1934	HMS Nelson entering Portsmouth harbor, Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, early-1930s.

HMS York in Admiralty Floating Dock No. 1 at Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, 1934	Kaga, Hiei, Kasuga, and a Takao-class cruiser in harbor, 1932-1934

Königsberg firing salutes while flying the British Royal Navy's White Ensign, 1934	Königsberg with cruiser Leipzig and a British C-class light cruiser, 1934

Light cruiser Ninghai, China, 1934	Louisville steaming past Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, New York City, United States, 1934

Nürnberg on slip II, Deutsche Werke Kiel, Germany, Nov 1933-Feb 1934	Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein in port, circa 1934