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Hiyō sunk and Jun'yō scrapped 1946–1947. Zuihō -class. Light aircraft carrier. Zuihō (1940–1944) Shōhō (1939–1942) 11,443 tonnes. Both sunk during WWII. Chitose -class. Light aircraft carrier.
29 October 1946; Sunk as a target ship in the Strait of Malacca after surrender to the Royal Navy. Atago. Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan. Takao -class heavy cruiser. 15,490. 30 March 1932. 23 October 1944; Sunk by USS Darter at in Palawan Passage during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Chōkai. Mitsubishi, Nagasaki.
Japanese cruiser Yahagi (1942) Japanese cruiser Yakumo. Japanese cruiser Yasoshima. Japanese cruiser Yūbari. Japanese cruiser Yura. Categories: World War II cruisers. World War II naval ships of Japan. Cruisers of Japan.
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945.
Maya. Maya (摩耶) was one of four Takao -class heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). These were the largest and most modern cruisers in the Japanese fleet, and were intended to form the backbone of a multipurpose long-range strike force.
List of battlecruisers of Japan. 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. The battlecruiser was an outgrowth of the armoured cruiser concept, which had ...
Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944) Ashigara (足柄) was the final vessel of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which were active in World War II. [2] The other ships of the class were Nachi, Myōkō, and Haguro. [3] Ashigara was named after Mount Ashigara on the border of ...
Japanese forces surrendered Seletar Naval Base to the British on 21 September 1945. On 27 October 1946, Takao was towed to the Strait of Malacca and was sunk as a target ship by the light cruiser HMS Newfoundland on 29 October 1946 at 03°05′05″N 100°41′00″E. [4] She was removed from the navy list on 3 May 1947.