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After dive-bombers from three of Admiral Nagumo's carriers immobilized the destroyer, Kirishima and the other two ships resumed firing on Edsall until she sank. [3] In April 1942, Kirishima and the Third Battleship division joined five fleet carriers and two cruisers in an attack against British naval bases in the Indian Ocean.
Ships in Class Ship Keel laid Commis-sioned War loss Postwar Kongō class: 31,720 tons exc. Kirishima 31,980 8 × 14-in. 14 × 6-in. 1,437 30.5 kn Kongō: Jan 1911 Aug 1913 sunk by USS Sealion (SS-315) Nov 1944 Haruna: Mar 1912 Apr 1915 Hit in Bombing of Kure July 1945 Scrapped 1946 Hiei: Nov 1911 Apr 1915
Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the lead ship of the class, Kongō, was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan, by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. [1] Her sister ships, Haruna, Kirishima and Hiei, were all completed in Japan. During the late 1920s, all but Hiei were reconstructed and reclassified as battleships.
Ayanami was scuttled by Uranami at 02:00, while Kirishima capsized and sank by 03:25 on 15 November. [141] Uranami rescued survivors from Ayanami and destroyers Asagumo, Teruzuki, and Samidare rescued the remaining crew from Kirishima. [142] Three U.S. destroyers, Walke, Benham, and Preston, were sunk during the battle.
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