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Ise was the lead ship of her class of two dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1910s. In the early 1920s, the ship supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War and assisted survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake. She played a minor role in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Despite expensive reconstruction in the 1930s, the ship was considered obsolete by the eve of the Pacific War. Following the loss of most of the navy's large aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway in mid-1942, she was rebuilt with a flight deck, but her aircraft never engaged in combat. She participated in the Battle off Cape Engaño in late 1944, where she was one of the ships that decoyed the American carrier fleet supporting the invasion of Leyte away from the landing beaches. In early 1945 Ise participated in Operation Kita in Southeast Asia, transporting petrol and other strategic materials to Japan. (Full article...)