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Japanese battleship Yamashiro - Definition and Overview |
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Yamashiro with Fuso and Haruna (more distant), Tokyo Bay, 1930s
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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| November 20, 1913
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| Launched:
| November 3, 1915
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| Commissioned:
| March 31, 1917
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| Fate:
| Sunk October 25 1944
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 39,154 tons
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| Length:
| 698 feet
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| Beam:
| 100 feet 5 inches
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| Draught:
| 31 feet 9 inches
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| Propulsion:
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| Speed:
| 25 knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 1400
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| Armament:
| twelve 14 inch guns, sixteen 6 inch, eight 5 inch DP, up to 37 × 25 mm AA
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The Yamashiro (山城) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's second Fuso-class battleship, and was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on November 20, 1913, launched on November 3, 1915, and commissioned on March 31, 1917. She was the first Japanese vessel equipped with aircraft catapults.
The Yamashiro differed slightly from its sister ship Fuso in the arrangement of gun turrets.
At the battle of Surigao Strait on October 25, 1944, she came under attack and was sunk by U.S. naval forces.
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Example Usage of battleship |
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guatguy: @cgarmada increible corto. hasta con homenaje a "battleship Potemkin", pero dudo que haya costado solo $300. sino, que buso el chavo. |
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H_i_r_k: @JennBuckner trade in chess for some Scrabble or battleship and it's a date...hope you like merlot... |
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ivortossell: It's nostalgic, like the last of the battleship engagements. |
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