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...

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. On the night of 14/15 November, in one of only two battleship duels of the Pacific War, Kirishima attacked and damaged the American battleship USS South...

November 1942, following the Japanese defeat and loss of Hiei and Kirishima during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the 3rd Battleship Division returned to Truk...

1942, following the Japanese defeat and the sinking of Hiei and Kirishima during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Third Battleship Division returned...

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...

Hiei, were all completed in Japan. During the late 1920s, all but Hiei were reconstructed and reclassified as battleships. After the signing of the London...

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...

(Chinese: 鎮遠; pinyin: Zhènyuǎn; Wade–Giles: Chen Yuen) was an ironclad battleship built for the Chinese Beiyang Fleet. She was the second and final member...

occurred. Hiei was damaged and the following day was sunk by American aircraft, becoming the first Japanese battleship to be lost in the war. The Japanese then...

Control) or the removal of combat equipment from a warship (See Japanese battleship Hiei). A demilitarised zone is a specific area, such as a buffer zone...

former Japanese air base which was captured by US forces and being used against Japanese shipping. The force centered around the battleships Hiei and Kirishima...

Class Overview MaritimeQuest Japanese Battleship Index Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Japanese gunboats in Japanese, with photo Materials of IJN...

submarines, battleships, oilers, minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime. Imperial Japanese Navy of...

force consisted of the battleships Hiei and Kirishima, each armed with eight 14-inch (356 mm) guns and a variety of smaller guns. Hiei served as Admiral Abe's...

torpedoes. The Japanese rebuilt all of their battleships, plus their battlecruisers, with distinctive "pagoda" structures, though the Hiei received a more...

dreadnoughts, while the Japanese began converting battlecruisers into fast battleships in the 1930s. In 1936, Italy and Japan refused to sign the Second...

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

range of 11 miles (18 km), and all shots missed. Chikuma was joined by battleships Hiei and Kirishima, which also opened fire with their 14-inch main batteries...

November 1942, when Marine Corps and Navy Avengers helped sink the Japanese battleship Hiei, which had already been crippled the night before. After hundreds...

The Ise-class battleships (伊勢型戦艦, Ise-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War...

spite of this damage, she was still able to inflict damage on the Japanese battleship Hiei. Returning to the war, she bombarded Kiska as part of the Aleutian...

by searchlights from Japanese battleship Hiei which was only 3,000 yards away, practically point-blank range for the battleship. The two sides began to...

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 12–13 November. As Laffey fought the Japanese battleship Hiei, she was sunk by large caliber gunfire and a torpedo. Lieutenant...

This is a list of battleships of the Second World War. All displacements are at standard load, in metric tonnes, so as to avoid confusion over their relative...

battle as the battleships Hiei and Kirishima blocked her view of the American ships. As the American ships got deeper into the Japanese formation, Teruzuki...

Battle of Guadalcanal: aviators from USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei. Notably, USS Juneau is sunk with much of its crew, including the...

between Japanese and American forces. November 13 – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign: Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei. British...

force consisted of the battleships Hiei and Kirishima, each armed with eight 14-inch (356 mm) guns and a variety of smaller guns. Hiei served as Admiral Abe's...

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...