List of battleships of Japan

This is a list of Japanese Navy battleships from 1860 to 1945.

Dates are launching dates.

Early battleships

• Fusō (1877) - BU 1910
• Kongō (1877) class corvettes
  • Hiei (1877)
  • Kongō (1877)
• Chin'En (1882) (ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914

Pre-Dreadnoughts

• Fuji class
  • Fuji (1896) - BU 1948
  • Yashima (1896) - Mined 1904
• Shikishima class
  • Shikishima (1898) - BU 1948
  • Hatsuse (1899) - Mined 1904
• Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
• Mikasa (1900) - Preserved Yokosuka
• Iki (1889) (ex-Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905) - sunk as target 1915
• Tango (1894) (ex Poltava, captured 1905) - BU 1923
• Sagami (1898) (ex-Peresviet, captured 1905)
• Suwo (1900) (ex-Pobieda, captured 1905)
• Hizen (1900) (ex-Retvizan, captured 1905)
• Iwami (1902) (ex-Russian Orel, captured 1905)
• Mishima (1894) (ex-Russian coastal battleship Admiral Senyavin, captured 1905)
• Okinoshima (1896) (ex-Russian coastal battleship General-Admiral Graf Apraxin, captured 1905)
• Katori class
  • Katori (1905) - scrapped 1924
  • Kashima (1905) - scrapped 1924
• Satsuma class
  • Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
  • Aki (1907) - Sunk 1924
• Kawachi class

• • Kawachi (1910) - sunk 1918
  • Settsu (1911) - scrapped 1947

Dreadnoughts

• Battleship prizes of World War 1
  • Torgud Reis (ex-Turkish, ex-German Weissenburg) - BU 1938
  • Nassau (ex-German) - BU
  • Oldenburg (ex-German) - BU 1921

• Kongo class
  • Kongo
  • Hiei
  • Kirishima
  • Haruna

• Fusō class
  • Fusō (1914) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • Yamashiro (1915) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.

• Ise class
  • Ise - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU
  • Hyūga - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU

• Nagato class
  • Mutsu - Blew up in harbor (magazine explosion?) 1943
  • Nagato - Sunk following Bikini atomic experiments 1946

• Tosa class
  • Tosa - incomplete, scuttled 1925
  • Kaga - completed as aircraft carrier, sunk June 1942 at the Battle of Midway.

• Amagi-class (only Akagi completed, but as an aircraft carrier)
  • Amagi - badly damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
  • Akagi sunk June 1942 at the Battle of Midway.
  • Takao - scrapped incomplete
  • Atago - scrapped incomplete

• Kii class (design only)
  • Kii
  • Owari
  • Suruga
  • Omi

• 13th Project ships
  • Dreadnought No. 13 - No. 16 (no names, plan only)

• Yamato class
  • Yamato (1940) - Sunk in route to Okinawa April, 1945
  • Musashi (1940) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier, as the Shinano class) - Sunk by submarine torpedo attack November 1944.
  • No. 111 (Kii?) (scrapped while under construction)
  • No. 797 (design-only)

• A-150 project
  • Warship No. 798 - No. 799 (no names, plan-only)

Note: BU = Broken Up date

External links

• Hiroshi Nishida's IJN site
• Imperial Japanese Navy Page
• List of WW2-era Japanese Warships