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Hiei (Japanese: 比叡, named after Mount Hiei) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston , she was the second launched of four Kongō -class battlecruisers , among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built.
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
Hiei was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 4 November 1911, launched 21 November 1912, and commissioned at Sasebo 4 August 1914, attached to the Third Battleship Division of the First Fleet. [ 31 ] [ 42 ] After conducting patrols off China and in the East China Sea during World War I, Hiei was placed in reserve in 1920. [ 42 ]
Japanese ironclad Hiei, a 1870s Kongō-class ironclad corvette of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Japanese battleship Hiei, a 1912 Kongō-class battlecruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. JDS Hiei, a Haruna-class destroyer in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force from 1974 to 2011.
Kongō was completed in August 1913, Hiei in August 1914, and Haruna and Kirishima in April 1915. The vessels saw minor patrol duty during the First World War. In the aftermath of the Washington Naval Treaty, all four ships underwent extensive modernisation in the 1920s and 1930s, which reconfigured them as fast battleships. [12]
TOKYO (AP) - A former crewmember on a Japanese battleship that sank during World War II says he recognizes photos taken of wreckage discovered this week off the Philippines by a team led by ...
Japanese battleship Hiei; Japanese battleship Hyūga; I. Japanese battleship Ise; K. Japanese battleship Kirishima; Japanese battleship Kongō ...
Japanese battleship Hiei; Japanese ironclad Hiei; Hikari (Hikaru Utada song) ... Picture of the day pictures. 07. Japanese Garden Pano, Cowra, NSW, 22.09.2006.