List of Japanese steam battleships

List of Japanese steam battleships

This is a list of Japanese battleships and early armored and steam ships of the period 1854-1945:

"Early steam ships"
* Shhei Maru (1854)
* Kanrin Maru (1855) - Japan's first screw-driven steam warship
* Kaiten
* Banryo (1856) - Ex-"Emperor", BU c. 1899

"Early armored ships"
* Ryūjō (1864) - Armored corvette, ex-"Ihosho Maru", BU 1904
* Kōtetsu (1864, ex-CSS "Stonewall") - Ironclad ram, renamed "Azuma", stricken 1888
* Kaiyō Maru (1865)
* Fusō (1877) - Armored frigate/small central battery ship, BU 1910
* Hiei class - Armored corvettes
** Hiei (1877) - Stricken 1909
** Kongō (1877) - Stricken 1911
* Chin'en (1882, ex-Chinese turret ship "Chen Yuan", captured 1895) - BU 1914
* Heien (1882, ex-Chinese armored gunboat "P'ing-yuan", captured 1895) - Mined 1904

"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 at Yokosuka, Kanagawa
* Sagami (1898, ex-Russian "Peresviet", sank 1904, captured 1905) - Returned to Russia 1916 as "Peresviet", mined 1917
* Suwo (1900, ex-Russian "Pobieda", sank 1904, captured 1905) - BU 1922
* Hizen (1900, ex-Russian "Retvizan", sank 1904, captured 1905) - Scuttled 1924
* Tango (1894, ex-Russian "Poltava", sank 1904, captured 1905) - Returned to Russia 1916 as "Poltava", BU 1923
* Iki (1889, ex-Russian "Imperator Nikolai I", captured 1905) - Scuttled 1915
* Iwami (1902, ex-Russian "Orel", captured at the Battle of Tsushima 1905) - Scuttled 1915
* Mishima (1894, ex-Russian "Admiral Senyavin", captured at the Battle of Tsushima 1905) - Scuttled 1936
* Okinoshima (1896, ex-Russian "General-Admiral Graf Apraxin", captured at the Battle of Tsushima 1905) - BU 1939
* Katori class
** Katori (1905) - BU 1924
** Kashima (1905) - BU 1925
* Satsuma class
** Satsuma (1904) - Scuttled 1924
** Aki (1905) - Scuttled 1924
* Kawachi class
** Kawachi (1904) - Blew up 1918
** Settsu (1905)

"Dreadnoughts"
* Fusō class
** Fusō (1914) - Torpedoed 1944
** Yamashiro (1915) - Sunk 1944
* Ise class
** Ise (1916) - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU
** Hyūga (1917) - Bombed 1945, refloated, BU
* Nagato class
** Nagato (1919) - Scuttled in atomic bomb test 1946
** Mutsu (1920) - Blew up 1943
* "Battleship prizes of World War I"
** (ex-Turkish "Torgud Reis", ex-German "Weissenburg") - Assigned but not taken over, BU 1938
** (ex-German "Nassau") - BU
** (ex-German "Oldenburg") - BU 1921
* Kaga class
** Kaga (1921, converted to carrier 1923-28) - Sunk 1942
** Tosa (1921) - Not completed, scuttled 1925
*Kii class (not completed)
**Kii
**Owari
**? (No. 11)
**? (No. 12)
*Number 13 class (not completed)
**? (No. 13)
**? (No. 14)
**? (No. 15)
**? (No. 16)
* Yamato class
** Yamato (1940) - Sunk 1945
** Musashi (1940) - Sunk 1944
** Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier) - Torpedoed 1944
**? (No. 111) (-) - BU 1940s?
**? (No. 797)
**? (No. 798)
**? (No. 799)

External links

* [http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/index.htm Hiroshi Nishida's IJN site]
* [http://www.combinedfleet.com Imperial Japanese Navy page]
* [http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/japan/battleships/japanese_battleship_index.htm Maritimequest Japanese battleship index]


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