List of battleships of Japan
- 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
*Hiei class
** "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
* "Sagami" () (ex-"Peresviet", captured 1905)
* "Suwo" () (ex-"Pobieda", captured 1905)
* "Hizen" () (ex-Russian battleship Retvizan|"Retvizan", captured 1905)
* "Tango" () (ex "Poltava", captured 1905) - BU 1923
* "Iki" () (ex-Russian "Imperator Nikolai I", captured 1905)
* "Iwami" (1902) (ex-Russian "Orel", captured 1905)
* "Mishima" () (ex-Russian coastal battleship "Admiral Senyavin", captured 1905)
* "Okinoshima" () (ex-Russian coastal battleship "General-Admiral Graf Apraxin", captured 1905)
*Katori class
** "Katori" (1905)
** "Kashima" (1905)
*Satsuma class
** "Satsuma" (1906) - Scuttled 1924
** "Aki" ()
*Kawachi class
** "Kawachi" ()
** "Settsu" ()
Dreadnoughts
*Fusō class
** "Fusō"
** "Yamashiro"
*Ise class
** "Ise"
** "Hyūga"
*Nagato class
** "Nagato"
** "Mutsu"
* Torgud Reis (ex-Turkish, ex-German "Weissenburg") - BU 1938
* Nassau (ex-German) BU
* Oldenburg (ex-German) - BU 1921
*Kaga class (neither commissioned as a battleship)
** "Kaga"
** "Tosa"
*Amagi-class (only Akagi completed, but as an aircraft carrier)
** "Amagi"
** "Akagi"
** "Takao"
** "Atago"
*Kii class (design only)
** "Kii"
** "Owari"
** "Suruga"
** "Omi"
*13th Project ships (no names, plan only)
** No. 13 - No. 16
*Yamato class
** "Yamato"
** "Musashi"
*Shinano class (converted to an aircraft carrier)
** "Shinano"
** No. 111 (Kii?)
** No. 297
External links
* [http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/index.htm Hiroshi Nishida's IJN site]
* [http://www.combinedfleet.com Imperial Japanese Navy Page]
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