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Yamashiro with Fuso and Haruna (more distant), Tokyo Bay, 1930s
Career
Ordered:
Laid down: November 20, 1913
Launched: November 3, 1915
Commissioned: March 31, 1917
Fate: Sunk October 25 1944
General Characteristics
Displacement: 39,154 tons
Length: 698 feet
Beam: 100 feet 5 inches
Draught: 31 feet 9 inches
Propulsion:
Speed: 25 knots
Range:
Complement: 1400
Armament: twelve 14 inch guns, sixteen 6 inch, eight 5 inch DP, up to 37 × 25 mm AA

The Yamashiro (山城) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's second Fuso-class battleship, and was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on November 20, 1913, launched on November 3, 1915, and commissioned on March 31, 1917. She was the first Japanese vessel equipped with aircraft catapults.

The Yamashiro differed slightly from its sister ship Fuso in the arrangement of gun turrets.

At the battle of Surigao Strait on October 25, 1944, she came under attack and was sunk by U.S. naval forces.

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