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In 1909, Japan's first domestically designed and produced battleship, Satsuma, was launched. The U.S. Navy base at the former Yokosuka Naval Arsenal (2004) Yokosuka became one of the main shipyards of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 20th century, building numerous battleships such as Yamashiro, and aircraft carriers such as Hiryū and Shōkaku.
1995 – IHI and Sumitomo Heavy Industries merged a warship business and established Marine United Ltd. The Uraga Dock Company was the origin in the shipbuilding of Sumitomo Heavy Industries. It was made by Enomoto Takeaki. However, Sumitomo Heavy Industries moved Uraga Dock to Yokosuka in 2003.
Uraga Dock Company was founded by Enomoto Takeaki in 1869. A shipyard had already existed in Uraga from the end of the Edo period.When Commodore Perry's flagship anchored off Uraga in 1854, one of the officials of the Tokugawa shogunate who boarded the American vessel was a trained shipwright, Nakajima Saburosuke.
Japanese submarine I-17; Japanese submarine I-29; Japanese submarine I-31; Japanese submarine I-36; Japanese submarine I-44; Japanese submarine I-54 (1943) Japanese submarine I-56 (1943) Japanese submarine I-58 (1925) Japanese submarine I-58 (1943) Japanese submarine I-59; Japanese submarine I-158; Japanese submarine I-159; Japanese submarine I-180
On May 20, 2021, Sumitomo Heavy Industries revealed that design drawings for sample parts used in test machine guns for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force had been leaked to China. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry issued a severe warning to the company and its subcontractor for violating the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act.
The air arsenal's roots go back to 1869 when the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) established a naval arsenal at Yokosuka, about 13 miles south of Yokohama on Tokyo Bay.The arsenal provided ship building, repair and replenishment to the Japanese Navy.
It was merged into the city of Yokosuka on April 1, 1943. The Uraga Dock Company, a privately held shipyard, was the major industry in the area, and many destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and subsequently the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force were built at its docks. Dock number 2 is still in operation.
Seawise Giant was ordered in 1974 and delivered in 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (S.H.I.) at Oppama shipyard in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, as a 418,611-ton Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC). [12] The vessel remained unnamed for a long time, and was identified by her hull number, 1016.