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The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868-1945.[1] This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army. For a list of ships of its successor, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

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Early warships[]

  • Atakebune, 16th century coastal battleships.
  • Red seal ships – Around 350 armed sailships, commissioned by the Bakufu in the early 17th century, for Asian and South-East Asian trade.
  • San Buena Ventura (1607) – Built by William Adams for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Crossed the Pacific in 1610.
  • San Juan Bautista (1614) – One of Japan's first Western-style sail warships, transported the embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga to America in 1614.

Early modern warships[]

Western-style sail warships[]

Shohei Maru (1854)
Kanrin Maru (1855)
  • Shohei Maru (1854) – Japan's first post-seclusion Western-style sail warship.
  • Hou-Ou Maru (1854)
  • Asahi Maru (1856)

Steam warships[]

Corvettes and gunboats[]

Battleships[]

Main article: List of battleships of Japan
Kotetsu (1864)
  • Kōtetsu, (1864–1888) – Japan's first ironclad warship, later renamed Azuma (ex-CSS Stonewall)
  • Fusō (1877–1910)
  • Battleship prizes of the First Sino-Japanese War :
    • Chin'en (1882, ex-Chinese Chen Yuen (1895–1914))
  • Fuji class
    • Fuji (1896–1948)
    • Yashima (1896–1904)
  • Shikishima class
    • Shikishima (1898–1948)
    • Hatsuse (1899–1904)
  • Asahi (1899–1942)
  • Mikasa (1900 – Preserved)
  • Battleship prizes of the Russo-Japanese War :
    • Iki (1889, ex-Russian Imperator Nikolai I) (1905–1915)
    • Tango (1892, ex-Russian Poltava (1905–1923)
    • Sagami (1898, ex-Russian Peresvet) (1905–1916)
    • Suwo (1900, ex-Russian Pobeda) (1905–1946)
    • Hizen (1900, ex-Russian Retvizan) (1905–1924)
    • Iwami (1902, ex-Russian Oryol) (1905–1924)
    • Mishima (1894, ex-Russian Admiral Seniavin) (1905–1936)
    • Okinoshima (1896, ex-Russian General Admiral Graf Apraksin) (1905–1925)
  • Katori class
    • Katori (1905–1924)
    • Kashima (1905–1924)
  • Satsuma class
    • Satsuma (1906–1924)
    • Aki (1907–1923)
  • Kawachi class
    • Kawachi (1910–1918)
    • Settsu (1911–1924)
  • Kongō class – Battlecruisers rebuilt as fast battleships
    • Kongō (1912–1944)
    • Hiei (1912–1942)
    • Haruna (1913–1945)
    • Kirishima (1913–1942)
  • Fusō class
    • Fusō (1914–1944)
    • Yamashiro (1915–1944)
  • Ise class
    • Ise (1916–1945)
    • Hyūga (1917–1945)
  • Nagato class
    • Nagato (1919–1946)
    • Mutsu (1920–1943)
  • Battleship prizes of World War I:
    • ex-Turkish Turgut Reis, ex-German Weissenburg, assigned but not taken over) – BU 1938
    • ex-German Nassau BU 1920
    • ex-German Oldenburg – BU 1921
  • Tosa class
    • Kaga (1921 – converted to an aircraft carrier)
    • Tosa (cancelled 1922, expended as target)
Yamato (1940)
  • Yamato class
    • Yamato (1940–1945)
    • Musashi (1940–1944)
    • Shinano (converted to an aircraft carrier)
    • Hull No. 111 (cancelled 1942)
  • Kai Yamato class
    • Hull No. 797 (not started)
  • Battleship design A-150
    • Hull No. 798 (not started)
    • Hull No. 799 (not started)

Seaplane tenders[]

  • Wakamiya (1913)
  • Notoro (1920)
  • Akitsushima
  • Kamoi
  • Chitose class (converted to aircraft carriers)
  • Mizuho
  • Nisshin
  • Kamikawa Maru class

Aircraft carriers[]

Hōshō (1921)
Taihō
  • Taihō (1943)
  • Chitose class light aircraft carriers
  • Unryū class
    • Amagi (1943)
    • Unryū (1943)
    • Katsuragi (1944)
    • Kasagi (not completed)
    • Aso (not completed)
    • Ikoma (not completed)
  • Shinano (1944)
  • Shimane Maru class escort carrier
    • Shimane Maru (1944)
    • Otakisan Maru (not completed)
  • Yamashio Maru class auxiliary escort carrier (used by the Army)
    • Yamashio Maru (1944)
    • Chigusa Maru (not completed)
  • Kumano Maru (1945) (used by the Army)

Cruisers[]

Protected cruisers[]

  • ex-Chinese cruisers as prizes of First Sino-Japanese War
    • Saien (1895–1904)
Izumi
  • Izumi (1884–1912)
  • Naniwa class
    • Naniwa (1885–1912)
    • Takachiho (1885–1914)
  • Unebi (1886–1887)
  • Yaeyama (1890–1911)
  • Chiyoda (1891–1927)
  • Chishima (1892–1892)
Itsukushima
  • Matsushima class
    • Itsukushima (1891–1926)
    • Matsushima (1892–1908)
    • Hashidate (1894–1927)
  • Akitsushima (1894–1927)
  • Yoshino (1893–1904)
  • Suma class
    • Suma (1896–1923)
    • Akashi (1899–1928)
Akashi
  • Takasago (1898–1904)
  • Kasagi class
    • Kasagi (1898–1916)
    • Chitose (1898–1928)
  • Niitaka class
    • Niitaka (1904–1923)
    • Tsushima (1904–1936)
  • Otowa (1904–1917)
  • Tone (1910–1931)
Chikuma
  • Chikuma class
    • Chikuma (1912–1931)
    • Hirado (1912–1940)
    • Yahagi (1912–1940)
  • ex-Russian cruisers as prizes of Russo-Japanese War
    • Tsugaru (1901, ex-Russian Pallada, 1908–1921)
    • Soya (1901, ex-Russian Varyag, 1907–1916)
    • Suzuya (1901, ex-Russian Novik, 1906–1913)

Dispatch vessels[]

  • Yodo class

Light cruisers[]

Tenryu
Kitakami
  • Kuma class
    • Kuma (1920–1944)
    • Tama (1921–1944)
    • Kitakami (1921–1945)
    • Ōi (1921–1944)
    • Kiso (1921–1944)
  • ex-German cruisers as prize of World War I
    • Y (1909, ex-German Augsburg, 1920–1922)
Abukuma
  • Nagara class
    • Nagara (1922–1944)
    • Isuzu (1923–1945)
    • Yura (1923–1942)
    • Natori (1922–1944)
    • Kinu (1922–1944)
    • Abukuma (1925–1944)
  • Sendai class
    • Sendai (1924–1943)
    • Jintsu (1925–1943)
    • Naka (1925–1944)
  • Yūbari (1923–1944)
  • ex-Republic of China cruisers as prizes of Second Sino-Japanese War
    • Ioshima (1931 ex-Ning Hai) (1937–1944)
    • Yasoshima (1935 ex-P'ing Hai) (1937–1944)
Kashii
  • Katori class
    • Katori (1940–1944)
    • Kashima (1940–1945)
    • Kashii (1941–1945)
    • Kashiwara (not completed)
Agano
  • Agano class
    • Agano (1942–1944)
    • Yahagi (1943–1945)
    • Noshiro (1943–1944)
    • Sakawa (1944–1945)
  • Ōyodo class
    • Ōyodo (1943–1945)
    • Niyodo (not completed)

Armored cruisers[]

Tokiwa
  • Asama class
    • Asama (1899–1945)
    • Tokiwa (1899–1945)
  • Izumo class
    • Izumo (1900–1945)
    • Iwate (1901–1945)
Yakumo
  • Yakumo (1900–1946)
  • Azuma (1900–1944)
  • Kasuga class
    • Kasuga (1904–1945) ex-Argentine Bernardino Rivadavia
    • Nisshin (1904–1936) ex-Argentine Mariano Moreno
  • ex-Russian armored cruisers as prizes of the Russo-Japanese War
    • Aso (1903, ex-Russian Bayan, 1908–1931)

Battlecruisers[]

Tsukuba
  • Tsukuba class
    • Tsukuba (1907–1917)
    • Ikoma (1908–1923)
  • Ibuki class
    • Ibuki (1909–1923)
    • Kurama (1911–1923)
  • Kongō class (battlecruisers converted to "fast battleships" in 1920s)
    • Kongō (1913–1945)
    • Hiei (1914–1942)
    • Haruna (1915–1945)
    • Kirishima (1915–1942)
  • Amagi class
    • Amagi (not completed)
    • Akagi (converted to aircraft carrier)
    • Atago (not completed)
    • Takao (not completed)

Heavy cruisers[]

Kako
  • Furutaka class
    • Furutaka (1926–1942)
    • Kako (1926–1942)
  • Aoba class
    • Aoba (1927–1945)
    • Kinugasa (1927–1942)
Haguro
Maya
  • Takao class
    • Takao (1932–1945)
    • Maya (1932–1944)
    • Atago (1932–1944)
    • Chōkai (1932–1944)
Mogami
  • Mogami class
    • Mogami (1935–1944)
    • Mikuma (1935–1942)
    • Suzuya (1937–1944)
    • Kumano (1937–1944)
  • Tone class
    • Tone (1938–1945)
    • Chikuma (1939–1944)
  • Ibuki class
    • Ibuki (1943; converted to aircraft carrier)
    • No. 301 (Canceled 1942)

Destroyers[]

1st Class destroyers[]

  • Urakaze class (1915)
    • Kawakaze
  • Isokaze class (1916–1917)
  • (1917-1919 on loan from the Royal Navy)
    • (HMS Nemesis)
    • (HMS Minstrel)
  • Kawakaze class (1917–1918)
  • Minekaze class (1919–1922)
    • Minekaze
    • Sawakaze
    • Okikaze
    • Shimakaze
    • Nadakaze
    • Yakaze
    • Hakaze
    • Shiokaze
    • Akikaze
    • Yūkaze
    • Tachikaze
    • Hokaze
    • Nokaze
    • Namikaze
    • Numakaze
  • Kamikaze class (1922–1925)
    • Asakaze
    • Asanagi
    • Harukaze
    • Hatakaze
    • Hayate
    • Kamikaze
    • Matsukaze
    • Oite
    • Yūnagi
  • Mutsuki class (1925–1927)
    • Fumizuki
    • Kikuzuki
    • Kisaragi
    • Mikazuki
    • Minazuki
    • Mochizuki
    • Mutsuki
    • Nagatsuki
    • Satsuki
    • Uzuki
    • Yayoi
    • Yūzuki
  • Fubuki class (1927–1931)
    • Akebono
    • Amagiri
    • Asagiri
    • Ayanami
    • Fubuki
    • Hatsuyuki
    • Isonami
    • Miyuki
    • Murakumo
    • Oboro
    • Sagiri
    • Sazanami
    • Shikinami
    • Shinonome
    • Shirakumo
    • Shirayuki
    • Uranami
    • Ushio
    • Usugumo
    • Yūgiri
  • Akatsuki class (1931–1932)
    • Akatsuki
    • Hibiki
    • Ikazuchi
    • Inazuma
  • Hatsuharu class (1932–1934)
    • Ariake
    • Hatsuharu
    • Hatsushimo
    • Nenohi
    • Wakaba
    • Yūgure
  • Shiratsuyu class (1935–1937)
    • Harusame
    • Kawakaze
    • Murasame
    • Samidare
    • Shigure
    • Shiratsuyu
    • Suzukaze
    • Umikaze
    • Yamakaze
    • Yūdachi
  • Asashio class (1936–1937)
    • Arare
    • Arashio
    • Asagumo
    • Asashio
    • Kasumi
    • Michishio
    • Minegumo
    • Natsugumo
    • Ōshio
    • Yamagumo
  • Kagerō class (1938–1941)
  • Yūgumo class (1941–1944)
  • Akizuki class (1941–1944)
  • Shimakaze class (1942)
    • Shimakaze
  • Matsu class (1944–1948)
  • Tachibana class (1944–1945)
    • Azusa (not launched)
    • Enoki
    • Hagi
    • Hatsuume
    • Hatsuzakura
    • Hishi (not launched)
    • Kaba
    • Kaki
    • Katsura (not completed)
    • Kusunoki
    • Kuzu (not launched)
    • Nashi – later the JDS Wakaba (DE-261)
    • Nire
    • Odake
    • Sakaki (not launched)
    • Shii
    • Sumire
    • Tachibana
    • Tochi (not completed)
    • Tsuta
    • Wakazakura (not launched)
    • Yadake (not completed)
    • Yaezakura (not completed)

2nd Class destroyers[]

3rd Class destroyers[]

Torpedo boats[]

River gunboats[]

Minesweepers[]

  • No.1 class
  • No.13 class
  • No.7 class
  • No.19 class
  • Aux. No.1 class

Patrol vessels[]

  • No.1-class auxiliary submarine chaser (驅潛特務艇第一號型): Over 200 built during World War II, 81 lost.

List of IJN Patrol Vessels can be found here at [1]

Minelayers[]

  • Itsukushima
  • Yaeyama

Submarines[]

Main article: Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy

1st Class submarines[]

  • Junsen class
    • Type J1, Junsen 1 gata (巡潜I型), 4 units, I-1, I-2, I-3, I-4.
    • , Junsen 1 gata kai (巡潜I型改), I-5.
    • , Junsen 2 gata (巡潜II型), I-6.
    • , Junsen 3 gata (巡潜III型), 2 units, I-7, I-8.
  • Kou class
    • Type A1, Kou gata(S35) (甲型 (S35)), 3 units, I-9, I-10, I-11.
    • Type A2, Kou gata(S35B) (甲型 (S35B)), I-12.
    • Type AM, Kou gata(S35G) (甲型 (S35G)), 2 units, I-13, I-14.
  • Otsu class
    • Type B1, Otsu gata(S37) (乙型 (S37)), 20 units, I-15, I-17, I-19, I-21, I-23, I-25, I-26, I-27, I-28, I-29, I-30, I-31, I-32, I-33, I-34, I-35, I-36, I-37, I-38, I-39.
    • Type B2, Otsu gata(S37B) (乙型 (S37B)), 6 units, I-40, I-41, I-42, I-43, I-44, I-45.
    • Type B3, Otsu gata(S37C) (乙型 (S37C)), 3 units, I-54, I-56, I-58.
  • Hei class
    • Type C1, Hei gata(S38) (丙型 (S38)), 5 units, I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22, I-24.
    • Type C2, Hei gata(S38B) (丙型 (S38B)), 3 units, I-46, I-47, I-48.
C3 type I-55
    • Type C3, Hei gata(S37D) (丙型 (S37D)), 3 units, I-52, I-53, I-55.
  • Tei class
    • Type D1, Tei gata(S51/S51B) (丁型 (S51/S51B)), 12 units, I-361, I-362, I-363, I-364, I-365, I-366, I-367, I-368, I-369, I-370, I-371, I-372(S51B).
    • Type D2, Tei gata kai(S51C) (丁型改 (S51C)), I-373.
  • Kaidai class
    • , Kaidai 1 gata (海大I型), I-51.
    • , Kaidai 2 gata (海大II型), I-152(52).
    • , Kaidai 3 gata a (海大III型a), 4 units, I-153(53), I-154(54), I-155(55), I-158(58).
    • , Kaidai 3 gata b (海大III型b), 5 units, I-156(56), I-157(57), I-159(59), I-60, I-63.
    • , Kaidai 4 gata (海大IV型), 3 units, I-61, I-162(62), I-164(64),
    • , Kaidai 5 gata (海大V型), 3 units, I-165(65), I-166(66), I-67,
    • , Kaidai 6 gata a (海大VI型a), 6 units, I-168(68), I-169(69), I-70, I-171(71), I-172(72), I-73.
    • , Kaidai 6 gata b (海大VI型b), 2 units, I-174(74), I-175(75).
    • , Kaidai 7 gata (海大VII型), 10 units, I-176(76), I-177, I-178, I-179, I-180, I-181, I-182, I-183, I-184, I-185.
Sentoku type I-401
  • Sentoku type, Toku gata (特型), 3 units, I-400, I-401, I-402 (I-404 not launched, I-405 not completed).
  • Sentaka type, Sentaka (潜高), 3 units, I-201, I-202, I-203 (I-204 to I-208 not completed).
  • Senho type, Senho (潜補), I-351 (I-352 not completed).
  • Kiraisen (Mine layer) type, Kiraisen (機雷潜), 4 units I-121, I-122, I-123, I-124.
  • Captured German submarines, 6 units, I-501 (U-181), I-502 (U-862), I-503 (UIT-24), I-504 (UIT-25), I-505 (U-219), I-506 (U-195).

2nd Class submarines[]

Kaichū VI Ro-33
  • Kaichū type
    • Type K1, Kaichū 1 gata (海中I型), 2 units, Ro-11, Ro-12.
    • Type K2, Kaichū 2 gata (海中II型), 3 units, Ro-13, Ro-14, Ro-15.
    • Type K3, Kaichū 3 gata (海中III型), 10 units, Ro-16, Ro-17, Ro-18, Ro-19, Ro-20, Ro-21, Ro-22, Ro-23, Ro-24, Ro-25.
    • Type K4, Kaichū 4 gata (海中IV型), 3 units, Ro-26, Ro-27, Ro-28.
    • Type KT (Toku-Chū), Kaichū 5 gata (海中V型), 5 units, Ro-29, Ro-30, Submarine No. 70, Ro-31, Ro-32.
    • Type K6, Kaichū 6 gata (海中VI型), 2 units, Ro-33, Ro-34.
    • Type KS (Sen-Chū), Kaichū 7 gata (海中VII型), 18 units, Ro-35, Ro-36, Ro-37, Ro-38, Ro-39, Ro-40, Ro-41, Ro-42, Ro-43, Ro-44, Ro-45, Ro-46, Ro-47, Ro-48, Ro-49, Ro-50, Ro-55, Ro-56.
  • Type L
    • Type L1, Ro go jū 1 gata (L1型), 2 units, Ro-51, Ro-52.
    • Type L2, Ro go jū 2 gata (L2型), 4 units, Ro-53, Ro-54, Ro-55, Ro-56.
    • Type L3, Ro go jū 3 gata (L3型), 3 units, Ro-57, Ro-58, Ro-59.
    • Type L4, Ro go jū 4 gata (L4型), 9 units, Ro-60, Ro-61, Ro-62, Ro-63, Ro-64, Ro-65, Ro-66, Ro-67, Ro-68.
  • Ko Type, 18 units, Ro-100, Ro-101, Ro-102, Ro-103, Ro-104, Ro-105, Ro-106, Ro-107, Ro-108, Ro-109, Ro-110, Ro-111, Ro-112, Ro-113, Ro-114, Ro-115, Ro-116, Ro-117.
  • Sen'yu-Shō Type, 10 units, Ha-101, Ha-102, Ha-103, Ha-104, Ha-105, Ha-106, Ha-107, Ha-108, Ha-109, Ha-111 (Ha-110 and Ha-112 not completed)
  • Sentaka-Shō Type, 11 units, Ha-201, Ha-202, Ha-203, Ha-204, Ha-205, Ha-207, Ha-208, Ha-209, Ha-210, Ha-216 (Ha-206, Ha-211 to Ha-215, Ha-217 to Ha-279 not completed)
  • German submarines, 2 units, Ro-500 (U-511), Ro-501 (U-1224).

3rd Class submarines[]

Ko-hyoteki-class submarine

Army submarines[]

  • Type 3 submergence transport vehicle

Other submarines[]

Suicide boats[]

  • Shinyo, 6,200 units.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945 (1st English ed.). London: Arms & Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-151-1.

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