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Construction at a Mitsubishi dockyard in Nagasaki, 1914 Kirishima being launched, 1 December 1913. Kirishima was the third of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kongō-class battlecruisers, a group of capital ships designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston. [2]
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.
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 ]
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
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
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 ...
3rd Battleship Division, 2nd Section Rear Admiral Tamotsu Takama in Haruna 2 Kongo-class fast battleships (8 × 14-in. main battery) Haruna (Rear Adm. Takama) Air unit: 3 Nakajima E8N2 Type 95 'Dave' float planes Kirishima (Capt. Sanji Iwabuchi) Air unit: 3 Nakajima E8N2 Type 95 'Dave' float planes Screening Force 10th Destroyer Squadron
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)