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Construction at a Mitsubishi dockyard in Nagasaki, 1914 Kirishima being launched, 1 December 1913. Kirishima was the third of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kongō-class battlecruisers, a group of capital ships designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston. [2]
Ships in Class Ship Keel laid Commis-sioned War loss Postwar Kongō class: 31,720 tons exc. Kirishima 31,980 8 × 14-in. 14 × 6-in. 1,437 30.5 kn Kongō: Jan 1911 Aug 1913 sunk by USS Sealion (SS-315) Nov 1944 Haruna: Mar 1912 Apr 1915 Hit in Bombing of Kure July 1945 Scrapped 1946 Hiei: Nov 1911 Apr 1915
Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the lead ship of the class, Kongō, was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan, by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. [1] Her sister ships, Haruna, Kirishima and Hiei, were all completed in Japan. During the late 1920s, all but Hiei were reconstructed and reclassified as battleships.
[c] Kirishima was hit below the waterline and suffered a jammed rudder, causing her to circle uncontrollably to port. Washington also fired on Atago with her secondary battery, lightly damaging the cruiser with a single 5-inch (127 mm) shell hit. [137] [138] Washington firing her main guns during the battle, probably at Kirishima
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Other than a patrol alongside Haruna and Kirishima off the Chinese coast in March 1919, Hiei remained in the Japanese home ports. [5] On 13 October 1920, she was placed in reserve. Following the Great Kantō earthquake of September 1923, the capital ships of the Japanese Navy assisted in rescue work until the end of the month.