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Kirishima (Japanese: 霧島, named after Mount Kirishima) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy which saw service during World War I and World War II.Designed by British naval engineer George Thurston, she was the third launched of the four Kongō-class battlecruisers.
At least two warships of Japan have borne the name Kirishima: Japanese battleship Kirishima , a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy , commissioned in 1915 and named after the volcano JS Kirishima , a destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force commissioned in 1995
Kongō-class battlecruiser 26,230 4 August 1914 13 November 1942; sunk by USN ships and aircraft in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Haruna: Kawasaki, Kobe: Kongō-class battlecruiser 26,230 19 April 1915 28 July 1945; sunk by USN aircraft at Kure Kirishima: Mitsubishi, Nagasaki: Kongō-class battlecruiser 26,230 19 April 1915
The Kongō-class battlecruiser (金剛型巡洋戦艦, Kongō-gata jun'yōsenkan) was a class of four battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) immediately before World War I. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston , the lead ship of the class, Kongō , was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan ...
On 15 November 1942, following the Japanese defeat and the sinking of Hiei and Kirishima during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Third Battleship Division returned to Truk, where it remained for the rest of 1942. [6]
Pages in category "Kongō-class battlecruisers" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Japanese battleship Kirishima;
Shinano (ex-battleship converted in 1942–44) — †1944 (1) Does not include Imperial Japanese Army built aircraft transports. (2) Amagi — sister ship to Akagi both as a battlecruiser and as a conversion to an aircraft carrier, was destroyed during construction by an earthquake and replaced with the Kaga.
The second half of World War II saw the last battleship duels. In the Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942, the U.S. battleships USS South Dakota and Washington fought and sank the Japanese battleship Kirishima, at the cost of moderate topside damage to South Dakota.