Tag: Navy
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Japanese Battlecruiser Hiei
Japanese Battlecruiser Hiei Laid down on the 4th of November 1911 and launched on the 21st of November 1912, Hiei was the second of the four-ship Kongō-class battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her three sisters were Kongō, Kirishima and Haruna. Commissioned into the fleet on the 19th of April 1915, she saw no… Read more
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Japanese Battlecruiser Kirishima
Japanese Battlecruiser Kirishima Laid down on the 17th of March 1912 and launched on the 1st of December 1913, Kirishima was the third of the four-ship Kongō-class battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her three sisters were Kongō, Hiei and Haruna. Commissioned into the fleet on the 19th of April 1915, she saw no… Read more
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Japanese Battlecruiser Kurama
Japanese Battlecruiser Kurama Commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy on the 28th of February 1911, Kurama was an Ibuki-class armoured cruiser. On 28 August 1912, the Ibukis were reclassified as battlecruisers. Kurama attended the Coronation Fleet Review for King George V at Spithead on 25 June 1911. During the First World War, she protected British… Read more