Aki (安芸) was one of two Satsuma-class semi-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the first decade of the 20th century...
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Alaska Japanese battleship Aki, an early 20th century battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy CCGS Waban-Aki, Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft Akis (disambiguation)...
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battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. They were the first battleships to be built in Japan and...
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1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad...
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enough to accompany Japan's growing carrier fleet, Kongō was reclassified as a fast battleship. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kongō operated off...
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Kawachi-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions...
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lead ship of her class of two Kawachi-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the 1910s. Completed in 1912, she often...
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Tosa (土佐) was a planned battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, she was envisioned as the lead ship of the Tosa class of...
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dreadnoughts, while the Japanese began converting battlecruisers into fast battleships in the 1930s. In 1936, Italy and Japan refused to sign the Second...
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battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Lead ship of her class, she was the first battleship built...
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British-built semi-dreadnought Katori-class battleships and the natively-built Satsuma-class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Type 41 10-inch (254 mm)...
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of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the...
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Seiichi Itō (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1911. He was 15th in a class of 148 cadets, and served as midshipman on the cruiser Aso and battleship Aki. His rise...
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Dreadnought (redirect from Dreadnought battleship)
The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an...
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15 cm/45 41st Year Type (category Naval guns of Japan)
Japanese battleship Aki - This ship had a secondary armament of eight 15 cm/45 41st Year guns in single casemated mounts amidships. Japanese battleship Kashima...
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Class Overview MaritimeQuest Japanese Battleship Index Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Materials of IJN...
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Iwami Province (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
province of Japan in the area that is today the western part of Shimane Prefecture. It was sometimes called Sekishū (石州). Iwami bordered Aki, Bingo, Izumo...
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Ibuki-class armored cruiser (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
Fore River Shipbuilding Co., two each for Ibuki and the battleship Aki. A month later, the Japanese paid $100,000 for a manufacturing license for the turbines...
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Nagato Province (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
Yoshida Shōin, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Kusaka Genzui among others. The Japanese battleship Nagato was named after this province. Sumiyoshi jinja was the chief...
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Katō Tomosaburō (category Japanese military personnel of the First Sino-Japanese War)
officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1922 to 1923. Born in Hiroshima, Aki Province (modern Hiroshima...
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Kawachi-gata senkan) was a two-ship class of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Both...
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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun...
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Kure, Hiroshima (redirect from Kure, Japan)
launching of the largest battleship ever built, the Yamato (1940). During the Pacific War, Kure acted as the Imperial Japanese Navy's single-largest naval...
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Jinichi Kusaka (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
cruiser Tokiwa and battleship Aki. As a lieutenant during World War I, he served on the cruiser Asama, followed by the battleship Kashima and destroyer...
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Kojūrō Nozaki (category Japanese military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War)
1872 – April 21, 1946) was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Nozaki was born in Aki District, Kōchi in what is now part of the village of Geisei...
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Tamon Yamaguchi (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
and Matome Ugaki. As an ensign, he served on the cruiser Chikuma and battleship Aki. After his commissioning as a lieutenant junior grade, he completed...
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Kuninori Marumo (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
ensign, on the battleship Mikasa. After completion of his torpedo and naval artillery training, he was assigned to the battleship Aki. In 1917, Marumo...
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Tosa Province (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
system in 1871, Tosa Province became Kochi Prefecture. The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Tosa, lead ship of its class, was named after the province. Tosa...
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This is a list of battleships of the First World War. All displacements are at standard load, in metric tonnes, so as to avoid confusion over their relative...
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Retvizan (Russian: Ретвизан) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built before the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was built...
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