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The Kawachi class (河内型戦艦, Kawachi-gata senkan), Kawachi and Settsu, were a pair of dreadnought battleships ordered in the Navy's Warship Supplement Program after the Russo-Japanese War. [111] They were the IJN's first dreadnoughts and marked one of the first steps in achieving Japan's recently adopted Eight-Eight Fleet Program. [112]
Semi-dreadnought Imperial Japanese Navy: Sunk as target in Tokyo Bay, 2 Sep 1924 Alabama (BB-8) 1898-05-18: Illinois class: Pre-dreadnought United States Navy: Alabama (BB-60) 1942-02-16: South Dakota class: Fast battleship United States Navy: Museum ship at Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile Bay: Albemarle: 1901-03-05: Duncan class: Pre ...
The Kawachi class (河内型戦艦, Kawachi-gata senkan) was a two-ship class of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Both ships bombarded German fortifications at Qingdao during the siege of Qingdao in 1914, but saw no other combat in World War I .
JDS Mirai (DDH-182) [1] is a fictional helicopter defense destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), created for the Japanese manga and anime series Zipang.The central point of the plot of the anime is that the modern warship Mirai is transported back sixty years through time to 1942 on the eve of the Battle of Midway.
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 by the Royal Navy raised the stakes, [6] and complicated Japan's plans. Displacing 17,900 long tons (18,200 t) and armed with ten 12-inch (30.5 cm) guns, Dreadnought rendered all existing battleships obsolete by comparison. [7]
Yamashiro (Japanese: 山城, "Mountain castle", named after the ancient Yamashiro Province) was the second of two Fusō-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Launched in 1915 and commissioned in 1917, she initially patrolled off the coast of China, playing no part in World War I.
— First-hand account of the battle by the captain of the Japanese cruiser Yahagi. Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter & Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. Lacroix, Eric & Wells II, Linton (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War ...
She was attacked in July 1945 as part of the American campaign to destroy the IJN's last remaining capital ships, but was only slightly damaged and went on to be the only Japanese battleship to have survived World War II. In mid-1946, the ship was a target for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads. She survived the first test with ...