page_title: List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
section_title: Battleships
hierarchical_section_title: List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy / Battleships
context_page_description: The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868-1945. This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army.
context_section_description: Kōtetsu, (1864–1888) – Japan's first ironclad warship, later renamed Azuma (ex-CSS Stonewall)
  Fusō (1877–1910)
  Battleship prizes of the First Sino-Japanese War :
  Chin'en (1882, ex-Chinese Chen Yuen (1895–1914))
  Fuji class
  Fuji (1896–1948)
  Yashima (1896–1904)
  Shikishima class
  Shikishima (1898–1948)
  Hatsuse (1899–1904)
  Asahi (1899–1942)
  Mikasa (1900 – Preserved)
  Battleship prizes of the Russo-Japanese War :
  Iki (1889, ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I) (1905–1915)
  Tango (1892, ex-Russian Poltava (1905–1923)
  Sagami (1898, ex-Russian Peresvet) (1905–1916)
  Suwo (1900, ex-Russian Pobeda) (1905–1946)
  Hizen (1900, ex-Russian Retvizan) (1905–1924)
  Iwami (1902, ex-Russian Oryol) (1905–1924)
  Mishima (1894, ex-Russian Admiral Seniavin) (1905–1936)
  Okinoshima (1896, ex-Russian General Admiral Graf Apraksin) (1905–1925)
  Katori class
  Katori (1905–1924)
  Kashima (1905–1924)
  Satsuma class
  Satsuma (1906–1924)
  Aki (1907–1923)
  Kawachi class
  Kawachi (1910–1918)
  Settsu (1911–1924)
  Kongō class – Battlecruisers rebuilt as fast battleships
  Kongō (1912–1944)
  Hiei (1912–1942)
  Haruna (1913–1945)
  Kirishima (1913–1942)
  Fusō class
  Fusō (1914–1944)
  Yamashiro (1915–1944)
  Ise class
  Ise (1916–1945)
  Hyūga (1917–1945)
  Nagato class
  Nagato (1919–1946)
  Mutsu (1920–1943)
  Battleship prizes of World War I:
  ex-Turkish Turgut Reis, ex-German Weissenburg, assigned but not taken over) – BU 1938
  ex-German Nassau BU 1920
  ex-German Oldenburg – BU 1921
  Tosa class
  Kaga (1921 – converted to an aircraft carrier)
  Tosa (cancelled 1922, expended as target)
  Yamato class
  Yamato (1940–1945)
  Musashi (1940–1944)
  Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier)
  Hull No. 111 (cancelled 1942)
  Kai Yamato class
  Hull No. 797 (not started)
  Battleship design A-150
  Hull No. 798 (not started)
  Hull No. 799 (not started)
caption: Kotetsu (1864)
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