Imperial Japanese Navy — Battleship class
Kongō-class battlecruiser
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 4 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1911–1915
- In commission
- 1913–1945
- Preceded by
- Ibuki-class armored cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Amagi-class battlecruiser (planned)
- Builders
- Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka
- Mitsubishi Shipyard Co., Nagasaki
- Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Haruna as built
- Displacement, standard
- 26,952 long tons (27,384 t)
- Length
- 214.58 m (704 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Complement
- 1,193
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 356 mm guns (Vickers 14 inch/45 naval gun)
- 16 × single 152 mm guns
- 4 × single 76 mm AA guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
Haruna, 1945
- Displacement, standard
- 31,648 long tons (32,156 t)
- Length
- 219.61 m (720.5 ft)
- Speed
- 30.5 knots (56.5 km/h, 35.1 mph)
- Complement
- 1,500
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 356 mm guns
- 8 × single 152 mm guns
- 6 × twin 127 mm/40 dual-purpose guns
- 118 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- 30 × depth charges
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese battleship Haruna | 1915 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| Japanese battleship Hiei | 1914 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Japanese battleship Kirishima | 1915 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Japanese battleship Kongō | 1913 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Kongō-class battlecruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.