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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
Japanese battleship Shikishima. The Shikishima class (敷島型戦艦, Shikishima-gata senkan) was designed as a more powerful version of the Royal Navy's Majestic-class battleship. [30] The ships were also assigned to the 1st Fleet before the Russo–Japanese War, were present at the Battle of Port Arthur and were slightly damaged during the ...
Kirishima 31,980 8 × 14-in. 16 × 6-in. 8 × 21-in. 1,437 30.5 kn Kongō: Jan 1911 Aug 1913 Converted to fast battleship, 1935 Haruna: Mar 1912 Apr 1915 Converted to fast battleship, 1933 Hiei: Nov 1911 Apr 1915 Converted to training ship, 1937; fast battleship, 1941 Kirishima: Mar 1912 Apr 1915 Converted to fast battleship, 1941 Amagi class
The force included Kirishima, heavy cruisers Atago and Takao, light cruisers Nagara and Sendai, and nine destroyers, some of the destroyers being survivors (along with Kirishima and Nagara) of the first night engagement two days prior. Kondo flew his flag in the cruiser Atago. [a] [121] 1 Kongo-class fast battleship: Kirishima (S)
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.
Hiei and Kirishima were both lost during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, while Haruna and Kongō jointly bombarded the American Henderson Field airbase on Guadalcanal. The two remaining Kongō-class battleships spent most of 1943 shuttling between Japanese naval bases before participating in the major naval campaigns of 1944.
Battleship Kirishima Heavy cruiser Tone Light cruiser Abukuma Kagerō-class destroyer Tanikaze 3rd Battleship Division Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa 2 Kongo-class fast battleships (8 × 14-in. main battery) Hiei, Kirishima 8th Cruiser Division Rear Admiral Hiroaki Abe [1] 2 Tone-class heavy cruisers (8 × 7.9-in. main battery) Tone, Chikuma 1st ...