Number 13-class battleship Number 13-class battleship The "Number 13"-class battleship was a planned class of four fast battleships to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. The ships never received any names, being known only as "Numbers 13–16". They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a major naval construction program in 1919. The "Number 13" class was designed to be superior to all other existing battleships, planned or building. After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922, they were cancelled in November 1923 before construction
Number 13 (2006 film) Number 13 (2006 film) Number 13 is the second of four adaptations of ghost stories by M.R. James broadcast by the BBC in a loose revival of the "A Ghost Story for Christmas" tradition of the 1970s. Following "A View from a Hill" the previous year and preceding "Whistle and I'll Come to You" in 2010, the forty-minute film was first screened in December 2006 on BBC Four. The film was adapted by Justin Hopper from the , first published in "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904. The film stars Greg Wise as an academic lodging in room 12