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Design A-150, [A] popularly known as the Super Yamato class, [B] was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have carried six 51-centimeter (20.1 in) guns to ensure their qualitative superiority over any other battleship they might face.
The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to the Second World War and completed as designed. A third hull, laid down in 1940, was converted to the aircraft carrier Shinano during construction.
Class Displacement Main Battery Secondary Battery Complement Speed Ships in Class Ship Keel Laid Commissioned War Loss 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
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.
Japanese corvette Yamato, corvette of the Katsuragi-class corvette, launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945. Yamato-class battleship, a class of 2 Japanese battleships and an aircraft carrier of World War II Japanese battleship Yamato, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after Yamato Province
Pages in category "Yamato-class battleships" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Japanese battleship Musashi; S. Japanese aircraft carrier ...
Japanese battleships at Brunei, Borneo, in October 1944, photographed just prior to the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The ships are, from left to right: Musashi , Yamato , Mogami and Nagato . Captain Toshihira Inoguchi relieved Asakura in command of Musashi on 12 August 1944 and was promoted to rear admiral on 15 October. [ 11 ]
Yamato (Japanese: 大和, named after Yamato Province) was the lead ship of the Yamato-class battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She and her sister ship , Musashi , were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed.