IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Add your posts about the Imperial Japanese Navy in this section
Brian James
Posts: 8764
Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:58 am

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by Brian James »

No 13 Class Sub-Chaser No 25 pictured on completion off Mitsubishi Shipyards, Yokosuka, January 31st 1942.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
designeraccd
Posts: 2905
Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:08 pm

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by designeraccd »

Two views of FUSO......... :) DFO
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Brian James
Posts: 8764
Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:58 am

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by Brian James »

Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Shikishima pictured at Portsmouth in 1900 and her main armament turret schematic.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
designeraccd
Posts: 2905
Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:08 pm

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by designeraccd »

Destroyer KABA just after launch in 1915 and later in 1925. :)

from Wiki:
"These 2nd class destroyers were funded under the September 1914 War Budget. The ten Kaba-class vessels were built simultaneously at eight different shipyards around Japan. As there was no time to design a new vessel, plans for the previous Sakura-class destroyers were distributed to each shipyard, with the instructions that the power plant was to be a conventional coal-fired triple expansion steam engine, and not a steam turbine.

Armament was almost the same as that of the Sakura class, with one QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I - IV, mounted on the forecastle deck forward of the bridge, and four 3 inch 12 pounder guns, mounted one on either side and two towards the stern of the ship, with two twin torpedo launchers on rotating centreline mounts, although the latter were the new 533mm type instead of the 450mm type in the Sakura class.

All ten vessels survived the war, and were stricken in November 1931 and broken up.

DFO
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Brian James
Posts: 8764
Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:58 am

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by Brian James »

Lead Ship, Kongō Class Ironclad Corvette Kongō pictured at Sydney in 1898. Built at Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Shipyards at Hull, Yorkshire and completed in 1878, Kongō briefly served with the Small Standing Fleet before becoming a Training Ship in 1887, thereafter making training cruises to the Mediterranean and to countries on the edge of the Pacific Rim. She returned to active duty during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 where she participated in the Battle of Weihaiwei. Kongō resumed her training duties after the war, though she also played a minor role in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The ship was reclassified as a Survey Ship in 1906 and was sold for scrap in 1910.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
designeraccd
Posts: 2905
Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:08 pm

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by designeraccd »

TAMA under construction in 1920, and launch...... :) DFO
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Brian James
Posts: 8764
Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:58 am

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by Brian James »

Many thanks to our resident naval historian Don Boyer for giving us an ID of this ship......Imperator Aleksandr II Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Iki pictured at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on February 12th 1906...Imperator Nikolai was built for the Baltic Fleet at the Franco-Russian Works Shipyard, Saint Petersburg and commissioned in July 1891. She participated in the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America in New York City in 1892. She was assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron and visited Toulon in October 1893. She sailed for the Pacific Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War and remained in the Pacific until late 1896, when she returned to the Mediterranean Squadron and supported Russian interests during the Cretan Revolt. She returned to the Baltic in April 1898 and had a lengthy refit, which replaced all of her machinery, before returning to the Mediterranean in 1901.
Returning to the Baltic during the Russo-Japanese War Imperator Nikolai I was refitted in late 1904 to serve as the flagship of the Third Pacific Squadron under Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov. She was slightly damaged during the Battle of Tsushima and was surrendered, along with most of the Third Pacific Squadron, by Admiral Nebogatov to the Japanese the following day. She was taken into the IJN under the new name of Iki (壱岐) and she served as a Gunnery Training Ship until 1910 and then became a first-class Coast Defense Ship and Training Vessel. She was sunk as a target ship in October 1915.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
designeraccd
Posts: 2905
Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:08 pm

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by designeraccd »

Two views of ASASHIMO, 1 all shiny the second......uhh......... :( Yugumo class.

Also, from WIKI:

On 6 April 1945, Asashimo escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on Operation Ten-Go towards Okinawa. She was sunk on 7 April by aircraft of Task Force 58, from the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto after falling astern of the Yamato task force due to engine trouble, 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Nagasaki. All of her 326 crew members - as well as Commander Destroyer Division 21 (Captain Hisao Kotaki) - lost their lives"

DFO
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Brian James
Posts: 8764
Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:58 am

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by Brian James »

Lead Ship, Destroyer Urakaze pictured immediately after launch at Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd Shipyards at Scotstoun, Glasgow on February 16th 1915. These were the last Japanese Destroyers ordered from overseas Shipyards. While still under construction, sistership Kawakaze was transferred to Italy (re-named Audace) in 1916. The failure of Japanese shipbuilders with the previous Umikaze Class Destroyers left the IJN without a large Destroyer capable of extended blue ocean operations. The Parsons steam turbines of the Umikaze Class were plagued with maintenance issues, as well as tremendous fuel consumption. The navy then returned to its previous mainstay for new technology and equipment, Yarrow Shipyards in the UK, ordering two vessels to a new design in the 1911 fiscal budget. However, Yarrow, along with other British Shipyards, had a large backlog of orders, and it was not until 1915 that the new vessels could be completed, and due to the outbreak of WWI, not until 1919 before Urakaze was turned over to Japan.The Urakaze Class vessels made use of oil-fired Brown-Curtiss turbine engines, and had the distinction of being the first vessels built for Japan to be designed for use without coal. The initial design called for diesel engines, however, due to the outbreak of World War I, Yarrow could not obtain necessary gear components from Germany. Urakaze was turned over to the IJN too late to see combat service in World War I. It was used for many years in patrols on the Yangzi River. She was retired in 1936, and used as a Training Vessel for the Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Forces. It was sunk in an air attack by USN aircraft on July 18th 1945.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
designeraccd
Posts: 2905
Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:08 pm

Re: IJN Ships -- Some Less Well-Known Photos

Unread post by designeraccd »

Launch of NATORI, 16 Feb., '22........... Also, along with KONGO in 1937 still with a intact stern. DFO
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic

Return to “Imperial Japanese Navy”