WWII B&W Photo IJN Konga Yokuska 1929 WW2 World War Two Japan / 7054

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IJN Konga in Drydock
Yokuska
This is a nice reproduction of an original WW2 photograph showing the Japanese Battleship Konga in drydock in Yokuska, Japan in 1929.
Size is about 4" x 6".
Kongō
(
金剛
, "indestructible", named for
Mount Kongō
) was a warship of the
Imperial Japanese Navy
during World War I and World War II. She was the first
battlecruiser
of the
Kongō
class
, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Her designer was the British naval engineer
George Thurston
, and she was
laid down
in 1911 at
Barrow-in-Furness
in Britain by
Vickers Shipbuilding Company
.
Kongō
was the last Japanese
capital ship
constructed outside Japan. She was formally
commissioned
in 1913, and patrolled off the Chinese coast during World War I.
Kongō
underwent two major reconstructions. Beginning in 1929, the Imperial Japanese Navy rebuilt her as a
battleship
, strengthening her armor and improving her speed and power capabilities. In 1935, her superstructure was completely rebuilt, her speed was increased, and she was equipped with
launch catapults
for
floatplanes
. Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing carrier fleet,
Kongō
was reclassified as a
fast battleship
. During the
Second Sino-Japanese War
,
Kongō
operated off the coast of mainland China before being redeployed to the Third Battleship Division in 1941. On the eve of World War II, she sailed as part of the Southern Force in preparation for the
Battle of Singapore
.
The
Kongō
fought in a large number of major naval actions of the
Pacific War
during World War II. She covered the Japanese Army's
amphibious landings
in
British Malaya
(part of present-day
Malaysia
) and the
Dutch East Indies
(now
Indonesia
) in 1942, before engaging American forces at the
Battle of Midway
and during the
Guadalcanal Campaign
. Throughout 1943,
Kongō
primarily remained at
Truk Lagoon
in the
Caroline Islands
,
Kure Naval Base
(near
Hiroshima
),
Sasebo Naval Base
(near
Nagasaki
), and
Lingga Roads
, and deployed several times in response to American
aircraft carrier
air raids
on Japanese island bases scattered across the Pacific. The
Kongō
participated in the
Battle of the Philippine Sea
and the
Battle of Leyte Gulf
in 1944 (October 22–23), engaging and sinking American vessels in the latter. The
Kongō
was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine
USS
Sealion
while transiting the
Formosa Strait
on 21 November 1944. She was the only Japanese battleship sunk by submarine in the Second World War, and the last battleship sunk by submarine in history.
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