Ise-class Battleship
| Country | Japan |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
This article refers to the entire Ise-class; it is not about an individual vessel.
ww2dbaseThe Ise-class battleships were built in the 1910s, and in the 1930s received modernizations that included improved machinery, armor, and fire control. Although the reconstructions in the 1930s were extensive, the most significant conversion that the Ise-class ships saw during their careers was the conversion in 1943 that made them hybrid battleship-carriers. Their two aft turrets (No. 5 and No. 6) were removed to make space for 70-meter flight decks and 40-meter hangars. The flight decks had a 200-milimeter layer of concrete in order to maintain the weight distribution that would otherwise be in imbalance due to the removal of the turrets. In their resulting hybrid forms, they were able to carry 22 aircraft each (9 on flight deck, 11 in hangar, and 2 on catapults). Theoretically the conversion of battleships Ise and Hyuga bolstered the strength of the Japanese Navy in the air, but Japan's lack of sufficiently trained pilots meant that these hybrid ships were never fully used in their new roles.
ww2dbaseSource: Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-45.
Last Major Revision: Feb 2009
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Ise-class Battleship Operational Timeline
| 1 Dec 1917 | Ise was commissioned into service. |
| 30 Apr 1918 | Hyuga was commissioned into service. |
| 30 Dec 1944 | Japanese convoy HI-84 sailed past battleship-carrier Ise, battleship-carrier Hyuga, cruiser Oyodo, cruiser Ashigara, destroyer Asashimo, and destroyer Kasumi in the South China Sea in the morning. At 1157 hours, HI-84 arrived at Binhoang Bay, French Indochina. |
| 24 Jul 1945 | British TF 37 launched 416 sorties, 261 of which were sent against the Japanese home islands and 155 were for defensive patrols; escort carrier Kaiyo was damaged by British carrier planes. On the same day, American TF 38 launched 600 aircraft against Kure, Nagoya, Osaka, and Miho, sinking battleship-carrier Hyuga, heavy cruiser Tone, and target ship Settsu, and damaging carrier Ryuho, carrier Amagi, battleship-carrier Ise, battleship Haruna, heavy cruiser Aoba, light cruiser Oyodo, transport Kiyokawa Maru; the Aichi aircraft factories at Nagoya were seriously damaged. |
| 28 Jul 1945 | 137 American P-47 aircraft based in Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan attacked targest in Kyushu, Japan. On the same day, 471 B-29 bombers attacked smaller Japanese cities in the home islands with incendiary bombs. Finally, from the sea, US Navy carrier aircraft struck various Inland Sea ports between Nagoya and northern Kyushu, sinking battleship Haruna, battleship-carrier Ise, heavy cruiser Aoba (in shallow water), and light cruiser Oyodo, and damaging carrier Katsuragi, carrier Hosho, and already beached battleship Settsu. |
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