#ijn kongo

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Battlecruiser IJN Kongo at builders.

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Midship view of IJN Kongo, just prior to her 1929 reconstruction.

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IJN NATORI with IJN KONGO (or HARUNA) at Sasebo, before the WWII.

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The Kongō-class battlecruiser was a class of four battlecruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately before World War I. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the lead ship of the class, Kongō, was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan

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Kongo and Princess Royal at Vickers.

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G4M1 bomber comes in for a mock torpedo run on IJN Kongo

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Battleship Kongō

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Kongo was actually built by Vickers (and was the last Japanese capital ship to be built outside of Japan), while the remaining three were built in Japanese yards. During the inter-war years, all of them were upgraded in terms of propulsion and protection, and were re-rated as battleships. KONGO is the only IJN battleship sunk by a submarine during the war and the last battleship ever sunk by a submarine.