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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
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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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