Hiei (比叡, Hiei) was the second and last vessel of the Kongō-class ironclad corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1870s. They were...

day. The 19th-century Japanese ironclad Hiei was named after this mountain, as was the more famous World War II-era battleship Hiei, the latter having initially...

Japan have been named Hiei, after Mount Hiei: Japanese ironclad Hiei, a 1870s Kongō-class ironclad corvette of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Japanese battleship Hiei...

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...

(金剛, Kongō) was the lead ship of the Kongō-class ironclad corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1870s. The class was built in the...

Fusō (扶桑) was a central-battery ironclad built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1870s. She was built in the United Kingdom because such ships...

The Kongō-class ironclads (金剛型) were a pair of armored corvettes built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by British shipyards in the 1870s. A British...

Kongō (Japanese: 金剛, named after Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first battlecruiser...

Kirishima (Japanese: 霧島, named after Mount Kirishima) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy which saw service during World War I and World War II...

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result...

In return, the Chinese warships inflicted serious damage on the old ironclad Hiei, which had been unable to keep pace with the rest of Itō's fleet, and...

Imperial Japanese Navy. Nobunaga's ironclad navy Hiroshi Nishida's IJN site Imperial Japanese Navy page Imperial Japanese Navy Awards of the Golden Kite in...

Hans & Ahlberg, Lars (2019). Capital Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868–1945: Ironclads, Battleships and Battle Cruisers: An Outline History of Their...

In return, the Chinese warships inflicted serious damage on the old ironclad Hiei, which had been unable to keep pace with the rest of Itō's fleet, and...

was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan, by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. Her sister ships, Haruna, Kirishima and Hiei, were all completed...

(1877) - retired in 1909 Hiei (1877) - retired in 1911 Central battery ironclad Fusō (1877) - sold for scrap in 1909 Ironclad turret ship Chin'en (1882...

Japanese Navy was composed of a fleet of 12 modern warships, (the protected cruiser Izumi being added during the war), eight corvettes, one ironclad warship...

Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships...

Yaeyama was active in the First Sino-Japanese War, protecting troop transports to Korea, and covering the landing of Japanese forces at Port Arthur. She was...

[Why did Nobunaga Oda burn down Mount Hiei? The all-too-obvious reason.]. Yahoo! News (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. Retrieved 7 August 2023. Watanabe, Daimon...

in England as an example of a low-cost cruiser able to withstand larger Ironclad warships. In theory, the ship would rely on its small size and higher speed...

236. Nishida, Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy Corbett, Sir Julian. Maritime Operations in The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. (1994) Originally classified...

Edward James Reed in 1874. The company was noted for building the Japanese ironclad Hiei, which was launched June 1877. On the ship yard several merchant...

Heavenly Dragon) was a sail-and-steam corvette of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Tenryū was named after the Tenryū River in Shizuoka and Nagano Prefectures...

of protected cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was the only one of the class constructed in Japan. Like sister ships, (Matsushima and Itsukushima)...

ironclad Kongō, and gunboat Maya. After his promotion to lieutenant on 21 December 1892, he served as chief navigator on the corvettes Kaimon, Hiei,...

Frigate Fusô and Belted Corvettes Kongô and Hiei – Part III". Contributions to the History of Imperial Japanese Warships (Paper III), p. 46. Howarth, The...

example, Bismarck and Hiei were lost due to rudder damage; the relatively large and "soft" unarmored bow structures of Japanese superbattleships Yamato...

three composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named for a mountain located between Osaka and Nara...

sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Musashi province, a former province of Japan located in the Kantō region. The name...