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Kongō on the ways at Barrow, showing two of the propellers and the port rudder, Scientific American, 1913. Kongō (Japanese: 金剛, named after Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II.
The Kongō-class battlecruiser (金剛型巡洋戦艦, Kongō-gata jun'yōsenkan) was a class of four battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) immediately before World War I. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston , the lead ship of the class, Kongō , was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan ...
Kongō (金剛, Kongō) was the lead ship of the Kongō-class ironclad corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1870s. The class was built in the United Kingdom because such ships could not yet be constructed in Japan.
Three naval vessels of Japan have been named Kongō: . Japanese ironclad Kongō (1877–1909), a Kongō-class ironclad of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Japanese battleship Kongō (1912–1945), the nameship of her class of battlecruisers, which were later modified into battleships.
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
The four Kongō-class ships were the first battlecruisers ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The four ships were authorised in 1910 as part of the Emergency Naval Expansion Bill, in response to the construction of HMS Invincible by the British Royal Navy. [11]
The Kongō-class ironclads (金剛型) were a pair of armored corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by British shipyards in the 1870s. A British offer to purchase the two ships during the Russo-Turkish War in 1878 was refused.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed between 1952 and 1954 after the dissolution of the IJN. [1] The IJN was the third largest navy in the world by 1920, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). [2] It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operations from the fleet.