Japanese battleship Haruna - Definition and Overview

Haruna under attack at her moorings at Kure, Japan, on 28 July 1945
Career
Ordered:	1911
Laid down:	16 March 1912
Launched:	14 December 1913
Commissioned:	19 April 1915
Fate:	Sunk by airplanes at her moorings at Kure on 28 July 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement:	36,600 tons
Length:	728 feet 4 inches
Beam:	101 feet 8 inches
Draught:	31 feet 9 inches
Propulsion:
Speed:	30 knots
Range:
Complement:	1360
Armament:	Eight 14 inch guns, sixteen 6 inch guns, eight 5 inch DP, up to 118 × 25 mm AA

Haruna (榛名) was a Kongo class battleship laid down by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe on 16 March 1912, launched on 14 December 1913 and completed on 19 April 1915.

In World War II Haruna provided distant cover for the Dutch East Indies invasion forces in January and February 1942, sortied into the Indian Ocean against the British Eastern Fleet with the Carrier Striking Force in April 1942, participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Battle of Santa Cruz Island on 25 October 1942, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, and the Battle off Samar in October 1944.

Haruna on the bottom on 8 October 1945

Haruna was attacked by enemy American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 and B-24 bombers of the United States Army Air Force while at Kure on 28 July 1945 and sank at her moorings with the loss of 65 of her crew, was stricken from the Navy List on 20 November 1945 and her hulk raised and broken up in 1946.

External links

• Tabular record of movement (http://www.combinedfleet.com/haruna.htm) from combinedfleet.com