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List of battleships of the Japanese Navy

This is a list of Japanese Navy battleships from 1860 to 1945.

Dates are launching dates.

Early battleships

• Fuso (1877) - BU 1910
• Hiei class
  • Hiei (1877)
  • Kongo (1877)
• Chin'En (1882) (ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914

Pre-Dreadnoughts

• Fuji class
  • [[Fuji]] (1896) - BU 1948
  • [[Yashima]] (1896) - Mined 1904
• Shikishima class
  • [[Shikishima]] (1898) - BU 1948
  • [[Hatsuse]] (1899) - Mined 1904
• [[Asahi]] (1899) - Sunk 1942
• [[Mikasa]] (1900) - Preserved Tokyo
• Sagami () (ex-Russian Peresviet, captured 1905)
• Suwo () (ex-Russian Pobieda, captured 1905)
• Hizen () (ex-Russian Retvizan, captured 1905)
• Tango () (ex Russian Poltava, captured 1905) - BU 1923
• [[Iki]] () (ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905)
• Iwami (1902) (ex-Russian Orel, captured 1905)
• Mishima () (ex-Russian Admiral Senyavin, captured 1905)
• Okinoshima () (ex-Russian General-Admiral Graf Apraxin, captured 1905)
• Katori class
  • Katori (1905)
  • Kashima (1905)
• Satsuma class
  • Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
  • Aki ()
• Kawachi class
  • Kawachi ()
  • Settsu ()

Dreadnoughts

• Fuso class
  • Fuso
  • Yamashiro
• Ise class
  • Ise
  • Hyuga
• Nagato class
  • Nagato
  • Mutsu
• Torgud Reis (ex-Turkish, ex-German Weissenburg) - BU 1938
• Nassau (ex-German) BU
• Oldenburg (ex-German) - BU 1921
• Kaga class (neither commissioned as a battleship)
  • Kaga
  • Tosa
• Amagi-class (only Akagi completed, but as a aircraft carrier)
  • Amagi
  • Akagi
  • Takao
  • Atago
• Kii class (design only)
  • Kii
  • Owari
  • Suruga
  • Omi
• 13th Project ships (no names, plan only)
  • No. 13 - No. 16
• Yamato class
  • Yamato
  • Musashi
• Shinano class (converted to a aircraft carrier)
  • Shinano
  • No. 111 (Kii?)
  • No. 297

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