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Kongos in Company

by Mitch on March 17, 2013

On the night of20th November 1944, at 0301hrs, the Kongo was struck by two

torpedoes fired from the USS Sealion, with the escort destroyer Urakaze being hit

by a third and sunk. Though damaged and listing, the Kong was still able to make

way and continued with the group until the extent of the damage forced her to

slowly fall out from the formation. Permission was sought and granted for the

Kong to make for the nearby port of Keelung, on the northern tip of Taiwan some

65 nautical miles to the southeast, and the Kongo departed the main group at

0440hrs along with a small destroyer escort.

Within fifteen minutes of detaching herself from the main force, the Kongo found

herself listing at 45 degrees and flooding uncontrollably. At 0518, the vessel was

dead in the water and the order was given to abandon ship once it was ...

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Nippons first dreadnought

by Mitch on July 31, 2012

The oldest battleships deployed by Japan during World War II were Nippons first

dreadnought class, the four impressive Kongos (Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, and

Kirishima). These were the only warships ever to have begun their service lives as

battle cruisers and to be later rebuilt into battleships. They were slightly faster than

contemporary RN battle cruisers, yet their protection was almost on a battleship

level. Although the designs were British, Kongo was the last Japanese battleship

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Japanese battlecruiser/fast battleship class, built 1912-15. In January 1911 the

Imperial Japanese Navy signed a contract with the British firm Vickers, under

which a 27 500- ton battlecruiser was to be built at Barrow, and material was to be

exported to Japan for a further three sisters. Kongo was launched on May 18,

1912, and completed in August 1913. Her sister Hiei was launched at Yokosuka

dockyard on November 21, 1912, followed by Kirishima on December 1, 1913, at

Mitsubishi, Nagasaki and Haruna 13 days later at Kawasaki, Kobe.

The design was similar to the contemporary British 'Improved Lion' Class, HMS

Tiger, but there is no evidence for the often-repeated claim that Kongo was such

an improvement that Tiger had to be hastily redesigned to incorporate her

features. The reverse is more likely to be true, in that Vickers' chief designer, Sir

George Thurston, was in touch with the ...

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Japanese battleship Fus

by Mitch on June 5, 2012


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The Japanese battleship Fus, was a part of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead

ship of the Fuso--class. She was laid down by the Kure Kaigun Kosho- on 11

March 1912, launched on 28 March 1914 and completed on 18 November 1915.

Her 356 mm (14 in) main gun turrets were placed in an unorthodox 2-1-1-2 style

(with her sister ship Yamashiro having her third turret reversed when compared to

Fus) and with a funnel separating the middle turret placement. This arrangement

was not entirely successful as the armoured section was needlessly lengthened

and the middle guns had trouble targeting. However, Fus's relatively fine hull form

allowed her to reach a speed of 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph).

Fus did not take part in any major action during World War I, as the majority of the

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Colours of Yamato

by Mitch on April 29, 2012


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None of the major signatories of the Washington Treaty were completely satisfied.

Japan was outraged at being assigned an inferior ratio to the British and theAmericans and considered this provision as just another racial insult. The

counterargumentsthat the British and Americans had far-ranging maritime

responsibilities compared to the Japanesefailed to mollify Tokyo.

The London Naval Agreement of 1936 was drawn up in the absence of Japan and

Italy, the former because its demands for pari ty with the other two major naval

powers was rebuffed, the latter feeling insulted by sanctions imposed by the

League of Nations in the wake of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This treaty,

between the isolationist-minded United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet

Union (whose few old battleships were in a dismal state), kept the Washington

Treatys 35,000-ton limit; eliminated the restriction on the number of battleships

per nation; stipulated that ...

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Imperial Japanese Battleships: Outline, 1897-1945

by Mitch on March 3, 2012

Sprinkled throughout this introductory guide you will find little black battleship icons,

miniatures of the silhouettes above. Each of these is a button linking to an in-depth

page on the individual ship profiled. Click the battleship icon to bring up detailed

specs and schematic drawings of the vessels, together with additional photos and

an historic outline on each ship or class of ships.

In the period in question, the first big buildup of the Japanese Navy to first-rate

status, the Japanese Admiralty purchased all of its major warships from its mentor

and political partner, Great Britain. In a bid to neutralize the Russian steam-roller

then tearing up the turf Japan had been coveting, Britain armed Japan by sea, arelationship formalized in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 -- Britain's first-

ever overseas alliance. This close treaty relationship inflated the IJN's prestige at

home and enhanced i ts poli tical clout. The navy ...

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Battleship HIJMS Ise

by Mitch on January 27, 2012

The Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Ise 1915 - 1945

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Design A-150 battleship

by Mitch on January 2, 2012


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Type 150 Battleship [below] a Yamato.

Class overview

Name: Design A-150

Operators: Imperial Japanese Navy

Preceded by: Yamatoclass

Planned: 2

Completed: 0

Cancelled: 2

General characteristics

Type: Battleship

Displacement: Approximately 70,000 long tons (78,000 ST; 71,000 t)

Length: 263.0 m (863 ft) (est.)

Beam: 38.9 m (128 ft) (est.)

Propulsion: Unknown

Armament: 6 510 mm (20.1 in)/45 caliber guns (23)

"Many" 100 mm (3.9 in)/65 caliber guns

Armor: Possibly a 460 mm (18 in) side belt; nothing more is given in

sources

Design A-150, also known as the Super Yamato class,[A 1] was a Japanese plan

for a class of battleships. Begun in 193839, the design was mostly complete by

1941. However, so that a demand for other types of warships could be met, all

work on Design A-150 was halted and no keels were laid. Authors ...

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BB Yamato's Superstructure I

by Mitch on August 28, 2011


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On 11 February 1943, Yamato was replaced by her sister ship Musashi as

flagship of the Combined Fleet. Dubbed "Hotel Yamato" by the Japanese cruiser

and destroyer crews stationed in the South Pacific,[26] the battleship spent only a

single day away from Truk between her arrival in August 1942 and her departure

on 8 May 1943. On that day, she set sai l for Yokosuka and from there for Kure,

arriving on 14 May. She spent nine days in drydock for inspection and general

repairs, and after sailing to Japan's western Inland Sea was again drydocked in

late July for significant refitting and upgrades. These included improvements to her

secondary turret armour and rudder controls, and the removal of her 155 mm wing

turrets in favour of greater anti-aircraft protection in the form of 25 mm guns andtwo surface search radar systems. On 16 August, Yamato began her ...

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