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.

Contents

[edit] Early battleships

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

[edit] Pre-Dreadnoughts

[edit] Dreadnoughts

  • Fusō class
  • Ise class
  • Nagato class
  • 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
  • Shinano class (converted to an aircraft carrier)
    • Shinano
    • No. 111 (Kii?)
    • No. 297

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