Japanese battleship Kirishima
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Kirishima (霧島) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's fourth Kongo class battleship, and was laid down by Mitsubishi in Nagasaki on March 17, 1912, launched on December 1, 1913 and commissioned on April 19, 1915.
On November 15, 1942, Kirishima engaged American vessels in the Battle of Guadalcanal, and while severely damaging the South Dakota, was sunk by heavy fire from the Washington.
