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
- Kongō (1877) class corvettes
- Chin'En (1882) (ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914
Pre-Dreadnoughts
Dreadnoughts
- Battleship prizes of World War 1
- Amagi-class (only Akagi completed, but as an aircraft carrier)
- Yamato class
- Yamato (1940) - Sunk in route to Okinawa April, 1945
- Musashi (1940) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier, as the Shinano class) - Sunk by submarine torpedo attack November 1944.
- No. 111 (Kii?) (scrapped while under construction)
- No. 797 (design-only)
Note: BU = Broken Up date
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