Battlecruisers: Kongo Class

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Brian James
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Lead Ship,Battlecruiser Kongo pictured undergoing her first major reconstruction at Yokosuka in 1930.In September 1929 she began her first major reconstruction,her horizontal armour, boilers, and machinery space were all improved, and she was equipped to carry Type 90 Model 0 floatplanes.When her reconstruction was completed on March 31st 1931, she was reclassified as a Battleship. From October 1933 to November 1934, Kongō was the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet,before being placed in reserve when the flag was transferred to Yamashiro.
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Some views of the semi-survivor of the class...........DFO
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Lead Ship,Battlecruiser Kongo pictured under reconstruction at Yokosuka,July 20th 1931.
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HARUNA in 1916-SMOKINNNNNNN!............ ;) DFO
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Kongō Class Battle Cruiser Hiei pictured at Sasebo in June 1926.
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The almost gone hulk of HARUNA, 1946........... :) DFO
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Lead Ship, Battlecruiser Kongo pictured during her first major reconstruction refit at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on February 20th 1931.
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Views of two of HARUNAs' turrets...........postwar on the half sunken hulk. ;) DFO
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Kongō Class Battlecruiser Hiei pictured weighing anchor off Yokohama on March 23rd 1914.
Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, she was the second launched of four Kongō-Class Battlecruisers, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Laid down in 1911 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Hiei was formally commissioned in 1914. She patrolled off the Chinese coast on several occasions during World War I, and helped with rescue efforts following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.
Starting in 1929, Hiei was converted to a Gunnery Training Ship to avoid being scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. She served as Emperor Hirohito's transport in the mid-1930s. Starting in 1937, she underwent a full-scale reconstruction that completely rebuilt her superstructure, upgraded her powerplant, and equipped her with launch catapults for floatplanes. Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing fleet of Aircraft Carriers, she was reclassified as a fast Battleship. On the eve of the US entry into World War II, she sailed as part of Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's Combined Fleet, escorting the six carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
As part of the Third Battleship Division, Hiei participated in many of the Imperial Japanese Navy's early actions in 1942, providing support for the invasion of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) as well as the Indian Ocean raid of April 1942. During the Battle of Midway, she sailed in the Invasion Force under Admiral Nobutake Kondō, before being redeployed to the Solomon Islands during the Battle of Guadalcanal. She escorted Japanese Carrier forces during the battles of the Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz Islands, before sailing as part of a bombardment force under Admiral Kondō during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. On the evening of November 13th 1942, Hiei engaged American Cruisers and Destroyers alongside her sister ship Kirishima. After inflicting heavy damage on American Cruisers and Destroyers, Hiei was crippled by American vessels. Subjected to an air attack from the USS Enterprise, she sank on the evening of November 14th 1942.
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HARUNA on trials, 1915.............. ;) DFO
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