List of ships of the Japanese Navy
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This is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, including ones in the past and ones in the present time.
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Early warships
- Red seal ships - Around 350 armed sailships, commissionned by the Bakufu in the early 17th century, for Asian and South-East Asian trade.
- San Juan Bautista (1614) - One of Japan's first Western-style sail warships, and the first to cross the Pacific Ocean
- Shōhei Maru (1854) - Japan's first post-seclusion Western-style sail warship.
- Kanrin Maru (1855) - Japan's first screw-driven steam warship
- Kaiyō Maru (1866)
- Kaiten
- Banryo
- Chiyodagata
- Chogei
- Shinsoku
- Mikaho
- Yoharu
- Kasuga
- Hiryu
- Teibo
- Ryujo (1864) - Armored corvette
- Hiei class - Armored corvettes
- Heien (1882, ex-Chinese, captured 1895) - Armored gunboat
Battleships
- Kotetsu (1864) - Japan's first ironclad warship, later renamed Azuma
- Fuso (1877)
- Chin'en (1882, ex-Chinese Chen Yuen, captured 1895) - BU 1914
- Fuji class
- Shikishima class
- Shikishima (1898) - BU 1948
- Hatsuse (1899) - Mined 1904
- Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
- Mikasa (1900) - Preserved
- Captured in 1905:
- Iki (1889, ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I)
- Tango (1892, ex-Russian Poltava) - BU 1923
- Sagami (1898, ex-Russian Peresviet)
- Suwo (1900, ex-Russian Pobieda)
- Hizen (1900, ex-Russian Retvizan)
- Iwami (1902, ex-Russian Orel)
- Mishima (1894, ex-Russian Admiral Senyavin)
- Okinoshima (1896, ex-Russian General-Admiral Graf Apraxin)
- Katori class
- Satsuma class
- Kawachi class
- Kongo class - Battlecruisers rebuilt as fast battleships
- Fuso class
- Ise class
- Nagato class
- 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 an aircraft carrier)
- Tosa (not completed)
- Yamato class
Aircraft carriers
- Hosho (1921)
- Kaga (1921)
- Akagi (1925)
- Ryujo (1931)
- Ryuho (1933)
- Shinyo (1934)
- Soryu class
- Zuiho class
- Chitose class
- Kaiyo (1938)
- Shokaku class
- Junyo class
- Taiyo class
- Akitsu Maru class
- Akitsu Maru (1941)
- Nigitsu Maru (1942)
- Taiho (1943)
- Unryu class
- Shinano (1944)
- Shinane Maru class
- Shimane Maru (1944)
- Otakisan Maru (not completed)
- Yamashiro Maru class
- Yamashiro Maru (1944)
- Chigusa Maru (not completed)
- Kumano Maru (1945)
Cruisers
Light cruisers
- Sai Yen (1883, ex-Chinese)
- Izumi (1883)
- Naniwa class
- Unebi (1886)
- Matsushima class
- Itsukushima (1889)
- Matsushima (1890)
- Hashidate (1891)
- Akitsushima (1892)
- Yoshino (1892)
- Akashi class
- Takasago (1897)
- Chitose class
- Tsushima class
- Otowa (1903)
- Tone (1904)
- Tsugaru (1899, ex-Russian Pallada, captured 1905)
- Soya (1899, ex-Russian Varyag, captured 1905)
- Suzuyu (1900, ex-Russian Novik, captured 1905)
- Yodo class
- Chikuma class
- Tenryu class
- Kuma class
- Y (1909, ex-German Augsburg, taken 1920)
- Nagara class
- Sendai class
- Yubari (1923)
- Chinese Ning Hai class
- Ioshima (ex-Ning Hai) (1931)
- Yasoshima (ex-P'ing Hai) (1935)
- Katori class
- Agano class
- Oyodo class
- Oyodo (1942)
- Niyodo (not completed)
Heavy cruisers
- Chiyoda (1890)
- Asama class
- Yakumo (1899)
- Azuma (1899)
- Kasuga class
- Aso (1900, ex-Russian Bayan, captured 1905)
- Tsukuba class (note: the IJN classified these as battlecruisers but they lacked the big guns of battlecruisers proper)
- Ibuki class (note: the IJN classified these as battlecruisers but they lacked the big guns of battlecruisers proper)
- Kongo class (battlecruisers which were all converted to "fast battleships" in the 1920s)
- Amagi class battlecruisers:
- Amagi (destroyed by earthquake in the slips, was to be converted to an aircraft carrier, Replaced by Kaga)
- Akagi (converted to aircraft carrier)
- Atago (not launched)
- Takao (not launched)
- Furutaka class
- Aoba class
- Myoko class
- Takao class
- Mogami class - Converted from light cruisers
- Tone class
- Ibuki class
- Ibuki (1943; converted to aircraft carrier)
- ? (No. 301) (not launched)
Destroyers
- Minekaze class (1919–1922)
- Momi class (1919–1922)
- Wakatake class (1922–1923)
- Kamikaze class (1922–1925)
- Mutsuki class (1925–1927)
- Fubuki class (1927–1931)
- Akatsuki class (1931–1932)
- Hatsuharu class (1932–1934)
- Tomozuru class (1933)
- Shiratsuyu class (1935–1937)
- Otori class (1935–1937)
- Asashio class (1936–1937)
- Kagero class (1938–1941)
- Yugumo class (1941–1944)
- Akizuki class (1941–1944)
- Shimakaze class (1942)
- Matsu class (1944–1948)
- Tachibana class (1944–1945)
- Azusa (not launched)
- Enoki
- Hagi
- Hatsuume
- Hatsuzakura
- Hishi (not launched)
- Kaba
- Kagi
- Katsura (not completed)
- Kusunoki
- Kuzu (not launched)
- Nashi
- Nire
- Odake
- Sakaki (not launched)
- Shii
- Sumire
- Tachibana
- Tochi (not completed)
- Tsuta
- Wakazakura (not launched)
- Yadake (not completed)
- Yaezakura (not completed)
Submarines
3rd Class Submarines
- Ko-hyoteki class
- Kairyu class
- Kaiten class
- C1 class
- C2 class
- S1 class
- Kawasaki class
- C3 class
- S2 class
2nd Class Submarines
- K1 class
- F1 class
- L1 class
- K2 class
- L2 class
- K3 class
- F2 class
- L3 class
- K4 class
- KT class
- L4 class
- K5 class
- KS class
- K6 class
- SS class
- STS class
1st Class Submarines
- I-400 class
- KD1 class
- KD2 class
- J1 class
- KD3a class
- KRS class
- KD3b class
- KD4 class
- KD5 class
- J1M class
- KD6a class
- J2 class
- J3 class
- KD6b class
- C1 class
- No71
- A1 class
- B1 class
- KD7 class
- L4 class
- B2 class
- A2 class
- B3 class
- C2 class
- C3 class
- B4 class
- C4 class
- D1 class
- AM class
- ST class
- SH class
- D2 class
- TK class
Army submarines
Other submarines
- Holland class
- modified Holland class