IJN Kirishima was a Japanese Kongō-class battlecruiser (later battleship) launched in 1913 and commissioned in 1915. She served in both World Wars, participating in major Pacific battles like Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Guadalcanal. Kirishima was heavily damaged and sunk by the US battleship Washington in November 1942. Key History and Operational Roles Construction: Built by Mitsubishi in Nagasaki, she was the third of her class. Interwar Period: Primarily operated as a training ship, saw patrols

Last cruise of the French fast battleship Richelieu arriving at Brest to enter the reserve and eventually becoming a stationary school ship for reserve officers. Feb 21 1956. | I love Warships

Battlecruiser or fast battleship? What do you think? HMS Hood born like BC, but...Much is made of the fact that she was designed before Jutland and the “lessons of Jutland”. What came out of the redesign work was, in effect, no longer a Battlecruiser at all, but a true (very) fast battleship. In the 1900–1920 era, a “battleship” devoted about 30–35% of its tonnage to armour: a “battlecruiser” would only be 20–25%, trading protection (and sometimes a little armament - British BCs often had one tu

USS North Carolina (BB-55) marked a turning point in American battleship design. Commissioned in April 1941, she was the U.S. Navy’s first true fast battleship—built to fight not as a lone gun platform, but as a heavily armored, high-speed guardian of aircraft carrier task forces. #ww2 #navy #ship #military | I love Warships