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List of battleships of the Japanese Navy

This is a list of Japanese Navy battleships from 1860 to 1945.

Dates are launching dates.

Contents

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
    • Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
    • Aki ()
  • Kawachi class
    • Kawachi ()
    • Settsu ()

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)
    • Shinano
    • No. 111 (Kii?)
    • No. 297

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