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List of ships of the Japanese Navy
This is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Self-Defence Forces, including ones in the past and ones in the present time.
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Battleships
Early battleships
- Fuso (1877) - BU 1910
- Hiei class
- Hiei (1877)
- Kongo (1877)
- Chin'En (1882) (ex-Chinese Chen Yuan, captured 1895) - BU 1914
Pre-Dreadnought battleships
- Fuji class
- [[Fuji]] (1896) - BU 1948
- [[Yashima]] (1896) - Mined 1904
- Shikishima class
- [[Shikishima]] (1898) - BU 1948
- [[Hatsuse]] (1899) - Mined 1904
- [[Asahi]] (1899) - Sunk 1942
- Mikasa (1900) - Preserved Tokyo
- Sagami () (ex-Russian Peresviet, captured 1905)
- Suwo () (ex-Russian Pobieda, captured 1905)
- Hizen () (ex-Russian Retvizan, captured 1905)
- Tango () (ex Russian Poltava, captured 1905) - BU 1923
- [[Iki]] () (ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I, captured 1905)
- Iwami (1902) (ex-Russian Orel, captured 1905)
- Mishima () (ex-Russian Admiral Senyavin, captured 1905)
- Okinoshima () (ex-Russian General-Admiral Graf Apraxin, captured 1905)
- Katori class
- Katori (1905)
- Kashima (1905)
- Satsuma class
- Satsuma (1906) - Scuttled 1924
- Aki ()
- Kawachi class
- Kawachi ()
- Settsu ()
WWII battleships
- Kongo class
- Fuso class
- Ise class
- Nagato class
- Torgud Reis (ex-Turkish, ex-German Weissenburg) - BU 1938
- Nassau (ex-German) BU
- Oldenburg (ex-German) - BU 1921
- Yamato class
Aircraft carriers
- Akagi
- Akitsu Maru
- Amagi
- Chitose
- Chiyoda
- Chuyo
- Hiyo
- Hiryu
- Hosho
- Junyo
- Kaga
- Kaiyo
- Katsuragi
- Kumano Maru
- Nigitsu Maru
- Ryuho
- Ryujo
- Shimane Maru
- Shinano
- Shinyo
- Shoho
- Shokaku
- Soryu
- Taiho
- Taiyo
- Unryu
- Unyo
- Yamashiro Maru
- Zuiho
- Zuikaku
Cruisers
- Abukuma
- Adzuma
- Agano
- Akashi
- Akitsushima
- Aoba
- Ashigara
- Atago
- Chikuma
- Chitose
- Chiyoda
- Chokai
- Furutaka
- Hashidate
- Haguro
- Hirado
- Ibuki
- Idzumi
- Idzumo
- Ikoma
- Isuzu
- Itsukushima
- Iwate
- Jintsu
- Kako
- Kamo
- Kasagi
- Kashii
- Kashima
- Kashiwara
- Kasuga
- Katori
- Kinu
- Kinugasa
- Kiso
- Kitakami
- Kizu
- Kuma
- Kumano
- Kurama
- Matsushima
- Maya
- Mikuma
- Mogami
- Myoko
- Nachi
- Nagara
- Naka
- Naniwa
- Natori
- Nayoro
- Niitaka
- Nisshin
- Niyodo
- Noshiro
- Oi
- Otowa
- Oyodo
- Sai Yen
- Sakawa
- Sendai
- Suma
- Suzuya
- Takachiho
- Takao
- Takasago
- Tama
- Tatsuta
- Tenryu
- Tokiwa
- Tone
- Tsukuba
- Tsushima
- Unebi
- Yahagi
- Yakumo
- Yodo
- Yoshino
- Yubari
- Yura
Destroyers
- Akatsuki class destroyer
- Akatsuki
- Akebono
- Akigumo
- Akishimo
- Akizuki class dstroyer
- Akizuki
- Amagiri
- Amatsukaze
- Arashi
- Arashio
- Arare
- Ariake
- Asagiri
- Asagumo
- Asashimo
- Asashio class destroyer
- Asashio
- Ayanami
- Fubuki class destroyer
- Fubuki
- Fujinami
- Fumizuki
- Fuyutsuki
- Hagikaze
- Hamakaze
- Hamanami
- Hanatsuki
- Harusame
- Harutsuki
- Hatsuharu class destroyer
- Hatsuharu
- Hatsukaze
- Hatsushimo
- Hatsutsuki
- Hatsuyuki
- Hayanami
- Hayashimo
- Hayashio
- Hibiki
- Hinoki
- Ikazuchi
- Inazuma
- Isokaze
- Isonami
- Kaede
- Kagero class destroyer
- Kagero
- Kashi
- Kasumi
- Kawakaze
- Kaya
- Kazekumo
- Keyaki
- Kikuzuki
- Kiri
- Kisaragi
- Kishinami
- Kiyonami
- Kiyoshimo
- Kuroshiro
- Kuwa
- Maikaze
- Maki
- Makikumo
- Makinami
- Matsu class destroyer
- Matsu
- Michishio
- Mikazuki
- Minazuki
- Minegumo
- Miyuki
- Mochizuki
- Momi
- Momo
- Murakumo
- Murasame
- Mutsuki class destroyer
- Mutsuki
- Naganami
- Nagatsuki
- Nara
- Natsugumo
- Natsushio
- Natsuzuki
- Nenohi
- Niizuki
- Nowaki
- Oboro
- Okinami
- Onami
- Oshio
- Oyashio
- Sagiri
- Sakura
- Samidare
- Satsuki
- Sazanami
- Shigure
- Shikinami
- Shimakaze class destroyer
- Shimakaze
- Shimotsuki
- Shinonome
- Shirakumo
- Shiranui
- Shiratsuyu class destroyer
- Shiratsuyu
- Shirayuki
- Sugi
- Suzukaze
- Suzunami
- Suzutsuki
- Takanami
- Take
- Tamanami
- Tanikaze
- Teruzuki
- Tokitsukaze
- Tsubaki
- Ume
- Umikaze
- Urakaze
- Uranami
- Ushio
- Usugumo
- Uzuki
- Wakaba
- Wakatsuki
- Yamagumo
- Yamakaze
- Yanagi
- Yayoi
- Yoizuki
- Yudachi
- Yugiri
- Yugumo class destroyer
- Yugumo
- Yugure
- Yukikaze
- Yuzuki
Submarines
3rd Class Submarines
- Kairyu type
- Kaiten type
- C1 type
- C2 type
- S1 type
- Kawasaki type
- C3 type
- S2 type
2nd Class Submarines
- K1 type
- F1 type
- L1 type
- K2 type
- L2 type
- K3 type
- F2 type
- L3 type
- K4 type
- KT type
- L4 type
- K5 type
- KS type
- K6 type
- SS type
- STS type
1st Class Submarines
- Japanese submarine I-400
- KD1 type
- KD2 type
- J1 type
- KD3a type
- KRS type
- KD3b type
- KD4 type
- KD5 type
- J1M type
- KD6a type
- J2 type
- J3 type
- KD6b type
- C1 type
- No71
- A1 type
- B1 type
- KD7 type
- L4 type
- B2 type
- A2 type
- B3 type
- C2 type
- C3 type
- B4 type
- C4 type
- D1 type
- AM type
- ST type
- SH type
- D2 type
- TK type
Army submarines
- Yu1 type
- Yu1001 type
- Yu2001 type
Other submarines
- Holland type
- mod-Holland type
- Foreign types
see also: Japanese ship naming conventions
Last updated: 01-22-2005 17:36:08