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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]
Battle off Samar; Part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Philippines Campaign (1944–45), Pacific War (World War II): The escort carrier Gambier Bay, burning from earlier gunfire damage, is bracketed by a salvo from a Japanese cruiser (faintly visible in the background, center-right) shortly before sinking during the Battle off Samar.
The 15.5 cm/60 3rd Year Type (60口径三年式15.5cm3連装砲, 60 kōkei sannenshiki 15.5 centi sanrensōhō) was a dual-purpose naval gun used by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the Yamato-class battleships as secondary armament in four triple turrets, the Mogami-class cruisers in five triple turrets (later converted to five twin 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun turrets) and on the light ...
The keel of Yamato, the lead ship of the class, [7] was laid down at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Hiroshima, on 4 November 1937 in a dockyard that had to be adapted to accommodate her enormous hull. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The dock was deepened by one meter, and gantry cranes capable of lifting up to 350 tonnes were installed.
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 ...
Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, Shinano ' s partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to an aircraft carrier following Japan's disastrous loss of four of its original six fleet carriers at the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. The advanced state of her construction prevented her conversion into a fleet ...
The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 [7] prompting the British Royal Navy to build a counter. The following year they launched HMS Warrior , which was twice the size and had 4.5 inches of wrought iron armour (with 18 inches of teak wood backing) over an iron hull.
However, at 0730, at 20,300 yards (18,600 m), battleship Yamato engaged a US "cruiser" and fired a single full nine gun broadside. Suddenly, three 18.1-inch (46 cm) shells smashed into Johnston. [42] [43] Seconds later, three 6.1-inch (155 mm) shells out of six fired from Yamato ' s secondary battery made their mark