Kongo-class Photographs | World War II Database

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Battlecruiser Kongo on sea trials, Aug 1913	Japanese battlecruiser Hiei fitting out at Yokosuka, Japan, 20 Sep 1913	The launching of battlecruiser Kirishima at the Mitsubishi Naval Shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan, 1 Dec 1913	Japanese battlecruiser Hiei departing Yokosuka en route to Kure, Japan, 23 Mar 1914

Japanese battlecruiser Hiei at Yokosuka, Japan, 24 Aug 1914	Battlecruiser Haruna being fitted out by the Kawasaki company at Kobe, Japan, Oct 1914	Haruna, as a battlecruiser, running trials, 1915	Battlecruiser Haruna at Kobe, Japan, 24 Apr 1915

Japanese battlecruiser Hiei at Sasebo, Japan, 21 Dec 1915	Japanese battlecruiser Kirishima at Sasebo, Japan, 21 Dec 1915	Japanese battlecruiser Kirishima undergoing maintenance and training at Sasebo, Japan, 4 May 1921	Battleship Kongo at Takao (Kaohsiung), Taiwan during Crown Prince Hirohito's visit, Apr 1923

Battleship Kongo in Kirun harbor, Taiwan with Crown Prince Hirohito on board, 27 Apr 1923	Japanese battlecruiser Hiei at Sasebo, Japan, Jun 1926	Kongo, photographed circa 1927-1928	Japanese battlecruiser Hiei during a fleet exercise south of Oshima Island, south of Tokyo Bay, Japan, 24 Oct 1927

Kongo depicted by a postcard, showing her with her later 1920s configuration	Battleship Haruna undergoing post-conversion trials, 25 May 1928	Haruna in harbor with other warships, circa 1929-31	Kongo just prior to her 1929 reconstruction