List of battleships of Japan
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This is a list of Japanese Navy battleships from 1860 to 1945.
Dates are launching dates.
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[edit] Early battleships
- Fusō (1877) - BU 1910
- Kongō (1877) class corvettes
- Chin'En (1882) (ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914
[edit] Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Fuji class
- 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
- Satsuma class
- Kawachi class
[edit] 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
- Fusō class
- Fusō (1914) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- Yamashiro (1915) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 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