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  2. Japanese battleship Hiei - Wikipedia

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    On 6 February 2019, Paul Allen's exploration ship RV Petrel announced the discovery of Hiei. According to Petrel, the main body of Hiei now lies upside down in 3,000 feet (900 m) of water northwest of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands. As with her sister ship, Kirishima, the bow of the ship is gone forward of the bridge due to a magazine ...

  3. Japanese ship Hiei - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Kongō-class battlecruiser - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. Ex-crew recognizes photos of sunken Japanese battleship - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. List of battleships of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of sunken battleships - Wikipedia

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    Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...

  8. Mount Hiei - Wikipedia

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    Mount Hiei (比叡山, Hiei-zan) is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto, lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan. The temple of Enryaku-ji , the first outpost of the Japanese Tendai (Chin.

  9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Japanese ...

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    Hiei was the second of the Kongo battlecruisers, and the first one constructed in Japan. She underwent what was likely the most varied reconstructions of any of the warships, being converted to a training ship to avoid being scrapped in 1929, before being reconfigured as a fast battleship.

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