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Yamato near the end of her fitting out, 20 September 1941 [14] Yamato ' s main battery consisted of nine 45-caliber 46-centimetre (18.1 in) Type 94 guns—the largest ever fitted to a warship, [15] although the shells were not as heavy as those fired by the British 18-inch naval guns of World War I.
Yamato as she appeared c. 1945 (specific configuration from 7 April 1945) In the original design, the Yamato class' secondary armament comprised twelve 15.5 cm/60 Type 3 guns mounted in four 3-gun turrets (one forward, two amidships, one aft), [53] and twelve 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 guns in six double turrets (three on each side amidships). [53]
Design A-150, [A] popularly known as the Super Yamato class, [B] was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have carried six 51-centimeter (20.1 in) guns to ensure their qualitative superiority over any other battleship they might face.
The two largest battleships ever constructed, Japan's Yamato class, which carried a main battery of nine 18.1-inch (460 millimetre) guns were designed to be a principal strategic weapon, but Yamato fired her main guns at enemy warships in only one engagement, while Musashi never fired her main guns at enemy ships.
Yamato class: 64,170 tons 9 × 18-in. 12 × 6.1-in. 2,500 27.5 kn Yamato: Nov 1937 Dec 1941 Sunk by air attack during Operation Ten-Go Apr 1945 Musashi: Mar 1938 Aug 1942 Sunk at Battle of the Sibuyan Sea Oct 1944 Shinano: May 1940 completed as aircraft carrier sunk by submarine attack 29 November 1944 Hull 111 scrapped 6 × 6.1-in. Hull 797 ...
The Bismarck class was a pair of fast battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of World War II.The ships were the largest and most powerful warships built for the Kriegsmarine; displacing more than 41,000 metric tons (40,000 long tons) normally, they were armed with a battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h ...
Yamato communicated this message to the other surviving ships by signal flag because her radios had been destroyed. [46] Only known photo of Yamato exploding [33] Itō, along with Captain Kōsaku Aruga, who commanded Yamato for the battle, refused to abandon ship, with Itō retiring to the flag cabin while Aruga tied himself to the binnacle. [47]
German battleship Bismarck, not DKM Bismarck; Japanese battleship Yamato, not HIJMS Yamato or IJN Yamato; Italian battleship Giulio Cesare, not RM Giulio Cesare; Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, not RFS Admiral Kuznetsov; Some authors use invented prefixes for consistency with "USS", "HMS" etc.