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This list of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.It includes submarines, battleships, oilers, minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime.
An Imperial Japanese Navy I-400-class submarine, the largest submarine type of World War II. Japan had by far the most varied fleet of submarines of World War II, including manned torpedoes , midget submarines (Ko-hyoteki, Kairyu), medium-range submarines, purpose-built supply submarines (many for use by the Army), long-range fleet submarines ...
British Expeditionary Fleet (遣英艦隊, Ken'ei Kantai) 1 April 1911 => 12 November 1911, organized for the Coronation Fleet Review of George V. 1st Special Task Fleet (第一特務艦隊, Dai-Ichi Tokumu Kantai) 7 February 1917 => 30 November 1919, fleet for unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I, renamed 2nd Expeditionary Fleet on 1 ...
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun ⓘ 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.
The island was the site of the primary long range transmitters used by the IJN and IJA to maintain contact with their far flung forces in World War II. Co-located with a seaplane base. Co-located with a seaplane base.
18 (plus 1 building) (1) 2 Furutaka built 1926-1927; 2 Aoba built 1926-1927; 4 Myōkō built 1928-1929; 4 Takao built 1932; 4 Mogami built 1935-1937(2); 2 Tone built 1941 (1) Ibuki ordered but not laid down (2) Mogamis designated light cruisers but were built to be up-gunned as heavies once the London Naval Treaty was broken.
Imperial Japanese Navy submarines originated with the purchase of five Holland type submarines from the United States in 1904. Japanese submarine forces progressively built up strength and expertise, becoming by the beginning of World War II one of the world's most varied and powerful submarine fleets.
The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868–1945. [1] This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army.