List of battleships of the Japanese Navy
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This is a list of Japanese Navy battleships from 1860 to 1945.
Dates are launching dates.
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Early battleships
- Fuso (1877) - BU 1910
- Hiei class
- Hiei (1877)
- Kongo (1877)
- Chin'En (1882) (ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914
Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Fuji class
- [[Fuji]] (1896) - BU 1948
- [[Yashima]] (1896) - Mined 1904
- Shikishima class
- [[Shikishima]] (1898) - BU 1948
- [[Hatsuse]] (1899) - Mined 1904
- Asahi (1899) - Sunk 1942
- Mikasa (1900) - Preserved Tokyo
- Sagami () (ex-Russian Peresviet, captured 1905)
- Suwo () (ex-Russian Pobieda, captured 1905)
- Hizen () (ex-Russian Retvizan, captured 1905)
- Tango () (ex Russian Poltava, captured 1905) - BU 1923
- [[Iki]] () (ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905)
- Iwami (1902) (ex-Russian Orel, captured 1905)
- Mishima () (ex-Russian Admiral Senyavin, captured 1905)
- Okinoshima () (ex-Russian General-Admiral Graf Apraxin, captured 1905)
- Katori class
- Katori (1905)
- Kashima (1905)
- Satsuma class
- Kawachi class
Dreadnoughts
- Fuso 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 a 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 a aircraft carrier)
- Japanese battleship Shinano|Shinano]]
- No. 111 (Kii?)
- No. 297
External Links
- Hiroshi Nishida's IJN site (http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/index.htm)
- Imperial Japanese Navy Page (http://www.combinedfleet.com)