Key Points and Summary on Yamat0-Class Battleships – The Imperial Japanese Navy’s WWII-era Yamato-class warships were the ...

The ship’s keel was laid down on Nov. 4, 1937. The Yamato launched on Aug. 8, 1940, and was commissioned on Dec. 16, 1941.Fully-laden displacement was a massive 72,000 tons, hull length was 862 ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest battleship ever constructed. her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ...

In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash across the Pacific islands, it commissioned the battleship Yamato as its flagship. Over 80 years later, ...

TOKYO -- When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato weighed anchor in Tokuyama Bay off Yamaguchi Prefecture on the afternoon of April 6, 1945, ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. ... BATTLESHIP YAMATO - In 1934 the Japanese begin designing The Yamato, ...

TOKYO -- Seventy-six years ago, on April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy vessel Yamato, the world's largest battleship, was sunk by U.S. military ...

Another 365 names — 296 from the Imperial Japanese Navy ship sunk 78 years ago off Kyushu — will be added to ... The Yamato was one of the two largest battleships ever built and featured the ...