Imperial Japanese Navy — Battleship class
Yamato-class battleship
Yamato class
The class in numbers
- 5 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1937–1942
- In commission
- 1941–1945
- Preceded by
- Nagato-class battleship (actual)
- Succeeded by
- A-150 class (planned)
- Builders
- Kure Naval Arsenal
- Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
- Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki
- Subclasses
- 2 (Shinano and No. 797 classes)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 71,659 long tons (72,809 t)
- Length
- 263 m (862.9 ft) OA
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Complement
- 2,767
- Main gun
- 460 mm (18.1 in)
- Armament
- 3 × triple 46 cm guns
- 4 × triple 15.5 cm guns
- 6 × twin 12.7 cm guns
- 8 × triple 25 mm AA guns
- 2 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano | 1944 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese battleship Musashi | 1942 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese battleship Yamato | 1941 | Sunk 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Yamato-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.