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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hama" data-source="post: 786895" data-attributes="member: 69762">Ah yeah I remember hearing about the Sōya but I must have forgotten it. I think her design was altered a bit a decade or two after the war?Thanks for the info on Mikasa and Hikawa. I've read up a fair bit on both their histories before so hopefully I can supplement whatever's missing on English signs there with my own memory...I had heard that too about Mikasa being cemented in place. I think she also went under some touch-ups a few years ago. This article says some US sailors helped repaint her (<a href="http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=47862">http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=47862</a>). Might be worth your trip back if you haven't seen her since the '80s.Do you know how much has been done on the Hikawa to try and make her look like she was in her liner days? I've seen photos of a few of the passenger accomodation areas and they look pretty well done up, but I don't know about other areas like the bridge, passenger decks, crew's quarters, etc.</blockquote>