Kongō-class battlecruiser
Ships
Due to a lack of available slipways, the latter two were the first Japanese warships to be built by Japanese private shipyards.

Kongō-class battlecruiser

Section Title: Ships
Table Section Text: Due to a lack of available slipways, the latter two were the first Japanese warships to be built by Japanese private shipyards.

Ship	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate

Kongō	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness	17 January 1911	18 May 1912	16 August 1913	Torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sealion, 21 November 1944

Hiei	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka	4 November 1911	21 November 1912	4 August 1914	Sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942

Kirishima	Mitsubishi Shipyard Co., Nagasaki	17 March 1912	1 December 1913	19 April 1915	Sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 15 November 1942

Haruna	Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe	16 March 1912	14 December 1913	Sunk by US aircraft, 28 July 1945; broken up from 1946

Sentence(s)

Hiei was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 4 November 1911, launched on 21 November 1912, and completed on 4 August 1914.

final_sentence: Hiei was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 4 November 1911, launched on 21 November 1912, and completed on 4 August 1914.