Hiei (Japanese: 比叡, named after Mount Hiei) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval...

Her sister ships, Haruna, Kirishima and Hiei, were all completed in Japan. During the late 1920s, all but Hiei were reconstructed and reclassified as battleships...

Displacement Main battery Note Kongō-class Fast battleship Kongō (1913–1944) Hiei (1914–1942) Kirishima (1915–1942) Haruna (1915–1945) 32,156 tonnes 8 × 14-inch...

with eleven battleships/battle cruisers: Asahi (1900), Kongo (1913), Hiei (1914), Kirishima (1915), Haruna (1915), Fuso (1918), Yamashiro (1917), Ise...

Kirishima engaged American cruisers and destroyers alongside her sister ship Hiei. On the night of 14/15 November, in one of only two battleship duels of the...

Imperial Japanese Navy in its pioneer days, notably the Ryūjō, Fusō, and Hiei. In 1885, he was placed in charge of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. The same...

included the dreadnoughts Kawachi, Settsu, the battlecruiser Kongō, her sister Hiei, and the seaplane carrier Wakamiya, whose airplanes became the first of its...

the First Battleship Division. In October, Kongō and her new sister ship Hiei sortied off the Chinese coast in support of Japanese army units during the...

of the Japanese battleship Hiei was announced, the first Japanese battleship sunk in World War II. According to Petrel, Hiei now lies upside down in 900 m...

artillery school, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant and served on the battleship Hiei, cruiser Tsushima and destroyer Ninohi. Hasegawa was promoted to lieutenant...

21 December 1892, he served as chief navigator on the corvettes Kaimon, Hiei, and Kongō. Suzuki served in the First Sino-Japanese War, commanding a torpedo...

Avengers from the Navy and Marine Corps helped to finish off the battleship Hiei, which had lost steering after being damaged the prior night. Beauforts also...

Onoe Kikugorō V played the role of many of these, such as the osakabe-hime. 1914: Publication of the Shokubutsu Kaiko by Mitsutaro Shirai. Shirai expositioned...

Cranston Fine Arts. 2001–2007. Burr, Lawrence (2006). British Battlecruisers 1914–18. New Vanguard No. 126. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-008-0....

during the Pacific War, participating in most of the major engagements. Hiei and Kirishima acted as escorts during the attack on Pearl Harbor, while Kongō...

Kongō—the Hiei only later as it had been disarmed under the terms of the Washington treaty) in two substantial reconstructions (one for Hiei). During the...

Callaghan's Task Group 67.4 (TG 67.4). Abe lost his flagship, the battleship Hiei, which he ordered scuttled after it had been seriously damaged, as well as...

back to Aso, and then to the battlecruiser Hiei. Nishimura attended naval artillery and torpedo school from 1914 to 1915, and then was assigned to the destroyer...

Willan was hired to train naval cadets. Ships such as the Fusō, Kongō and Hiei were built in British shipyards, and they were the first warships built abroad...

Battle of Anegawa (1570) Ishiyama Hongan-ji War (1570–1580) Siege of Mount Hiei (1571) Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574) Siege of Iwamura Castle (1572)...

Matsushima (flagship), Chiyoda, Itsukushima, Hashidate, the ironclads Fusō, and Hiei, under the command of Admiral Itō Sukeyuki. There were also two dispatch...

Mahākāla-Daikokuten to Japan. Legend claims that when he first climbed Mount Hiei (located northeast of Kyoto), Mahākāla appeared to him in the form of an...

out of a class of 57 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the corvette Hiei and battleship Yashima. He was promoted to ensign on January 12, 1900, and...

other [contemporary] ships". Kongō was completed in August 1913, Hiei in August 1914, and Haruna and Kirishima in April 1915. The vessels saw minor patrol...

USS Sealion in the Formosa Strait Hiei Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan Kongō-class battlecruiser 26,230 4 August 1914 13 November 1942; sunk by USN ships...

Japanese warships: Kongō-class battlecruisers, launched 1912–1913: Kongō Hiei Kirishima Haruna Fusō-class battleships, launched 1915: Fusō Yamashiro Ise-class...

Yamashita Gentarō. He served as a torpedo officer on the Jingei, Takachiho and Hiei. With the opening of the Sasebo Naval District, he was appointed secretary...

mortally damaged, was scuttled that evening. Hiei — One of the Kongō-class battleships, was commissioned in 1914. After Pearl Harbor, she remained as an escort...

returning to Japan in 1914. After his return to Japan, Toyoda was appointed as squad leader of the 4th Squadron on the Hiei. During the later period...

Japanese Navy Years of service 1891–1935 Rank Admiral Commands Tsukuba, Ibuki, Hiei, Naval Gunnery School, 5th Squadron, Naval War College, Vice-chief of Navy...