CD-43 was a C Type class escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...

escort carriers and destroyers managed to successfully defend itself against a much larger Japanese force of battleships and cruisers. The Japanese met...

other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime. Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II List of Japanese military equipment...

escort ships (丙型海防艦, Hei-gata kaibōkan) were a class of escort ships in the service of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The Japanese called...

Imperial Japanese Navy, 10 Kriegsmarine F-class escort ships, and the two Amiral Murgescu-class vessels of the Romanian Navy. Postwar destroyer escorts and...

(海鷹, meaning Sea Hawk) was an escort carrier operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. The ship was originally built as the ocean...

escort carrier operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, converted from the German ocean liner Scharnhorst. The liner had been trapped in Kure, Japan following...

following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868–1945. This list also includes ships before the official...

CD-35 was a C Type class escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. CD-35 was laid down by Nippon Kokan K. K. at...

CD-23 was a C Type escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. CD-23 was laid down by the Nihonkai Dock Company...

CD-19 was a C Type class escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. She was laid down by Nippon Kokan K. K. at...

CD-17 was a C Type class escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. CD-17 was laid down by Nippon Kokan K. K. at...

CD-51 was a C Type class escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. CD-51 was laid down by the Mitsubishi Heavy...

CD-53 was a C Type class escort ship (Kaibōkan) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. CD-53 was laid down by Nippon Kokan K.K. at...

ships, Brazilian NAM Atlântico (A140), Japanese Akitsu Maru escort carrier, and French Mistral class. Catapult aircraft merchantmen, merchant ships which...

an experimental destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and intended as the lead ship in a projected new "Type C" of destroyers....

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Japanese: 海上自衛隊, Hepburn: Kaijō Jieitai), abbreviated JMSDF (海自, Kaiji), also simply known as the Japanese Navy...

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...

guns capable of penetrating the Japanese armor. The Japanese opened fire shortly after dawn, targeting Taffy 3's escort carriers, which Kurita mistook...

Yamato (Japanese: 大和, named after the ancient Yamato Province) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)...

USS Jamaica (CVE-43) (originally AVG-43 then later ACV-43), was an escort carrier of World War II that served in the British Royal Navy as HMS Shah (D21)...

Nagato (Japanese: 長門, named after the ancient Nagato Province) was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Completed...

C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy which served in World War II, the first of three U.S. Navy ships to bear the name. Samuel B...

II and the lead ship of her class. She was sunk in the early days of the Second Sino-Japanese War by aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and her wreck...

with no Japanese ships lost. This was the worst defeat ever suffered by the U.S. Navy while at sea, only mitigated by the failure of the Japanese to attack...

CD-186 or No. 186 was a Type D escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 11 April 1944 at the Nagasaki shipyard...

other escort ships charged the Japanese ships to protect nearby US carriers and transport craft. After engaging several Japanese capital ships and a destroyer...

 43–49. ISBN 0-306-81069-7. Characteristics for Japanese career are from documentation provided by the Japanese to the United States when the ship was...

military ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy lists all vessels sunk by ships commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and by Japanese naval aircraft...

troop ferrying and convoy escorting missions during the Sino-Japanese war, but did not see combat. By the time of Japan's entry into World War II with...