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Haruna (Japanese: 榛名, named after Mount Haruna) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II.Designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston, she was the fourth and last battlecruiser of the Kongō class, amongst the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built.
The battleships Hyūga, Ise, and Haruna, the heavy cruisers Tone and Aoba, the outdated armored training cruisers Iwate and Izumo and the ex-battleship turned target ship Settsu were all heavily damaged and settled in shallow water. [6] The shallow anchorage precluded the use of torpedoes. The US aircraft attempted to reduce their losses from ...
Haruna and Kongō engaged American surface vessels during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in late October 1944. Kongō was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sealion in November 1944, while Haruna was sunk at her moorings by an air attack in Kure Naval Base in late July 1945, but later raised and scrapped in 1946. [2]
Japanese battleship Haruna, a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy JDS Haruna , a Haruna -class destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force List of ships with the same or similar names
IJN battlecruiser Haruna, Yokosuka, Japan, 1916 The Kongō -class battlecruisers were rebuilt as fast battleships during the 1920s and '30s. Their turbines and boilers were replaced by lighter, more powerful models, they were bulged to improve their underwater protection, their horizontal armor was increased and the range of their guns was ...
Haruna, a Kongō-class battlecruiser on its sea trials, on 23 January 1915. The Imperial Japanese Navy (大日本帝国海軍) built four battlecruisers, with plans for an additional four, during the first decades of the 20th century.
At 08:20, emerging through smoke and rain squalls, Johnston was confronted by a 36,600-ton Kongō-class battleship (probably Haruna, which reported engaging a US destroyer with her secondary battery around this time.) [34] Johnston fired at least 40 rounds, with over 15 hits on the battleship's superstructure observed.
At the end of 1934 he was given command of the heavy cruiser Maya, and the following year of the battleship Haruna. [8] [9] On December 1, 1936, he was promoted to rear admiral. He taught at the Naval War College in 1936, then held various staff positions, including Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet in 1937.