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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.
Hiei (比叡, Hiei) was the second and last vessel of the Kongō-class ironclad corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1870s. They were built in the United Kingdom because the Japanese were unable to build ironclad warships in Japan.
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.
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.
The IJN in the Indian Ocean. Ships shown from left to right are: Akagi, Sōryū, Hiryū, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna, and Kongō. Taken from the Zuikaku, March 30. The last major operation of the First Operational Phase was the Combined Fleet's raid into the Indian Ocean, code-named Operation C. It was essential for the completion of the defensive ...
Hiei: Nov 1911 Apr 1915 Converted to training ship, 1937; fast battleship, 1941 ... List of IJN Patrol Vessels can be found here at . No.1-class patrol boat.
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.
Commissioned into IJN Fate Kongō: Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness: Kongō-class battlecruiser: 26,230 16 August 1913 21 November 1944; sunk by USS Sealion in the Formosa Strait Hiei: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan: Kongō-class battlecruiser 26,230 4 August 1914 13 November 1942; sunk by USN ships and aircraft in the Naval Battle of ...