List of Japanese steam battleships

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

Early steam ships

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
  • Shikishima class
  • 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
  • Satsuma class
    • Satsuma (1904) - Scuttled 1924
    • Aki (1905) - Scuttled 1924
  • Kawachi class

Dreadnoughts

  • Fusō class
  • 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)

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