Japanese battleship Haruna
Service
- as Haruna19 April 1915 — 28 July 19452,157 days of the war
- Name
- Haruna
- Namesake
- Mount Haruna
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1911
- Laid down
- 16 March 1912
- Launched
- 14 December 1913
- Commissioned
- 19 April 1915
- Fate
- Sunk at her moorings on 28 July 1945; raised and scrapped in 1946 (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 36,600 long tons (37,187 t)
- Length
- 222 m (728.3 ft)
- Beam
- 31 m (101.7 ft)
- Draught
- 9.7 m (31.8 ft)
- Speed
- 30.5 knots (56.5 km/h, 35.1 mph)
- Complement
- 1,360
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
Haruna was a battleship of the Kongō-class battlecruiser built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Mount Haruna. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Shipyards on 16 March 1912. Launched on 14 December 1913, she entered service on 19 April 1915.
Her class ran to four ships. The class followed the Ibuki-class armored cruiser and was succeeded by the Amagi-class battlecruiser.
Displacement was 36,600 long tons. She measured 222 m (728 ft) long with a beam of 31 m (102 ft). Her designed speed was 30.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,360.
Her main battery was eight 356 mm (14.0 in) guns. She carried three aircraft. Her machinery developed 64,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,157 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 28 July 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Brown-Curtis turbines
- 4 × shafts
- Power
- 64000 shp
- Armament
- 1915:
- 8 × 356 mm guns (4×2)
- 16 × 152 mm guns (16×1)
- 8 × 76 mm guns (8×1)
- 8 × 530 mm torpedo tubes (submerged)
- 1945:
- 8 × 356 mm (4×2)
- 8 × 152 mm guns (8×1)
- 12 × 127 mm/40 guns (6×2)
- 108 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
- Armour
- Turrets: 9 in
- Belt: 8 in
- Deck: 1.5 in–2.75 in
- Aircraft
- 3 × reconnaissance floatplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese battleship Haruna on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Kure Naval Arsenal Shipbuilding unit — Kure Maritime Museum, (edited by Kazushige Todaka), Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Battleships and Battle Cruisers , p. 114.; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.18 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons