The Battleship Book by Robert M. Farley

Author:Robert M. Farley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History Military, Battleships, WWI, WWII
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

HIJMS Yamashiro

Laid Down: 1913

Launched: 1915

Completed: March, 1917

Displacement: 29,300 tons

Main Armament: ten 14” guns (three triple turrets)

Secondary Armament: sixteen 6” guns (casemates)

Speed: 22.5 knots

Reconstruction: 1930–1935

Treaty: Pre-Washington Naval Treaty

Major Engagements: Battle of Leyte Gulf

Fate: Sunk by gunfire and torpedoes, October 25, 1944.

Yamashiro and her sister Fuso were the first super-dreadnoughts built by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Constructed at the same time as the Kongo class battlecruisers, they represented Japan’s effort to match the American standard-type battleships, as well as the big 14” gunned ships of the Royal Navy. In terms of speed and broadside, Yamashiro was comparable to the British Queen Elizabeth class. She entered service in March 1917, but World War I was effectively over in Asia, and plans to transfer a portion of the IJN’s battlefleet to Europe never came to fruition.

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