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She was one of only three British-built battleships sunk by submarine attack during World War II. The other two were the British Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Barham. As of August 2024, Kongō is the only Japanese battleship from World War II whose wreck has not been located or surveyed.
The threat of the Kongō-class on American lines of communication and logistics leading up to World War II highly influenced the U.S. Navy's decision to order the Iowa-class fast battleships. The Kongō-class battleships were the most active capital ships of the Japanese Navy during World War II, participating in most major engagements of the war.
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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 only US ship surrendered to Japanese during World War II Azio-class: Gunboat: Okitsu: 625 Salvaged from the Italian wreck Insect-class: River gunboat: Suma: 635 Salvaged from the British wreck Atami-class: River gunboat: Atami Futami: 249 Seta-class: River gunboat: Seta Katata Hira Hozu: 343 Japanese gunboat Kotaka: River gunboat: Kotaka: 57
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.
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the strategy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was underpinned by several key assumptions.The most fundamental was that just as the Russo-Japanese War had been decided by a single naval battle at Tsushima (May 27–28, 1905), the war against the United States would also be decided by a single, decisive battle at sea, or Kantai Kessen. [14]
Hiei (Japanese: 比叡, named after Mount Hiei) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II.Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, she was the second launched of four Kongō-class battlecruisers, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built.