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
- Chin'en (1882) (ex-Chinese Zhenyuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914
Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Fuji class
- Shikishima class
- Shikishima (1898) - BU 1948
- Hatsuse (1899) - Mined 1904
- Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
- Mikasa (1900) - Preserved Yokosuka
- Iki (1889) (ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905) - sunk as target 1915
- Tango (1894) (ex-Russian Poltava, captured 1905) - BU 1923
- Sagami (1898) (ex-Russian Peresvet, captured 1905)
- Suwo (1900) (ex-Russian Pobeda, captured 1905)
- Hizen (1900) (ex-Russian Retvizan, captured 1905)
- Iwami (1902) (ex-Russian Oryol, captured 1905)
- Mishima (1894) (ex-Russian Admiral Seniavin, captured 1905)
- Okinoshima (1896) (ex-Russian General Admiral Graf Apraksin, captured 1905)
- Katori class
- Satsuma class
- Kawachi class
Dreadnoughts and post-Treaty battleships
- Kongō class
- Kongō - sunk by USS Sealion, November 1944.
- Hiei - sunk off Guadalcanal, November 1942.
- Kirishima - sunk off Guadalcanal, November 1942.
- Haruna - Sunk at moorings, July 1945.
- Fusō class
- Fusō (1914) - Sunk in Surigao Strait, October 1944.
- Yamashiro (1915) - Sunk in Surigao Strait, October 1944.
- Tosa class
- Tosa - incomplete, scuttled 1925
- Kaga - completed as aircraft carrier, sunk at the Battle of Midway, June 1942.
- Amagi class
- Amagi - badly damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake while being converted into an aircraft carrier, scrapped.
- Akagi - completed as aircraft carrier, sunk at the Battle of Midway, June 1942.
- Takao - scrapped incomplete
- Atago - scrapped incomplete
- Kii class (design only)
- Kii
- Owari
- Suruga
- Omi
- Number 13 class
- Dreadnought No. 13 - No. 16 (no names, plan only)
- Yamato class
- Yamato (1940) - Sunk en route to Okinawa April, 1945
- Musashi (1940) - Sunk October 1944 in Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- Shinano - completed as aircraft carrier, sunk by USS Archerfish, November 1944.
- No. 111 (Kii?) (scrapped while under construction)
- No. 797 (design-only)
- A-150 project
- Warship No. 798 - No. 799 (no names, plan-only)