Japanese Warships in the WWII

From: Chuck@pe.net (Chuck Cunningham)
Newsgroups: sci.military.naval
Subject: Re: Any list of Japanese ships ?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:30:00 GMT

Battleships:

Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima
Fuso, Yamashiro
Hyuga, Ise
Nagato, Mutsu
Yamato, Musashi

Cruisers:

CL

Tenryu, Tatsuta
Kuma, Tama, Kitakami, Oi, Kiso
Nagara, Isuzu, Yura, Natori, Kinu, Abukuma
Yubari
Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi, Sakawa
Sendai, Jintsu, Naka
Katori, Kashima, Kashii
Oyodo
Ioshima, Yasoshima

CA

Furutaka, Kako
Aoba, Kinugasa
Myoko, Nachi, Haguro, Ashigara
Mogami, Mikuma, Suzuya, Kumano
Tone, Chikuma
Takao, Chokai, Atago, Maya

Destroyers:

Momi class: 21 ships
Minekaze class: 15 ships
Urakaze: 2 ships
Amatsukaze: 4 ships
Wakatake class: 12 ships
Kamikaze class: 9 ships
Mutsuki class: 12 ships
Fubuki class: 20 ships
Akatsuki class: 4 ships
Hatsuharu class: 6 ships
Shiratsuyu class: 10 ships
Asashio class: 10 ships
Kagero class: 18 ships
Shimakaze
Yugumo class: 20 ships
Akizuki class: 13+3 ships
Matsu class: 18 ships
Tachibana class: 23 ships

Aircraft Carriers:

Hosho
Kaga, Akagi
Ryujo
Soryu, Hiryu
Shokaku, Zuikaku
Shoho, Zuiho
Taiyo, Chuyo, Unyo
Chitose, Chiyoda, (seaplane carrier, later CV)
Hiyo, Junyo
Kaiyo
Shinyo
Taiho
Shinano
Ryuho
Ibuki
Kaiyo
Unryu, Amagi, Katsuragi

Additional CVEs of the Army not listed, broke list into respective classes. Soryu and Hiryu are really two different ships, but are classed as the same class.

Tons of patrol, submarines, aux., etc. omitted.

Warships of the IJN, 1869-1945 by Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, Peter Mickel, USNI Press. This book has everything in the period and the changes, many of the planned ships, etc.

Chuck Cunningham
<Chuck.Cunningham@HDCAFE.Riverside.Ca.US> -or- <Chuck@pe.net>

Updated 1996-02-01 by Lars Bruzelius

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