Talk:Japanese battleship Yamashiro

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Sturmvogel 66 in topic 14" guns
Featured articleJapanese battleship Yamashiro is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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February 27, 2013Good article nomineeListed
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December 11, 2019Featured topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 3, 2013.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura refused to abandon ship when his flagship, the battleship Yamashiro, was capsizing during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944?
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  • Paraphrasing from Stille:
    • p. 23: Yamashiro and her sister ship Fusō spent most of the war around Japan, mostly at the anchorage at Hashirajima in Hiroshima Bay. The two ships left Hashirajima on May 29, 1942, to assist the invasion of Midway if needed, but they played no part in that disastrous battle, and returned to Japan. Yamashiro stayed in home waters until August 1943, and the next month became a training ship for midshipmen. - Dank (push to talk) 16:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • From Rohwer (See Fusō): pp. 169, 180 and 366 are the same. p. 367: torpedoes from the destroyer McDermut sank Yamashiro during the day on Oct. 24. - Dank (push to talk) 23:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • P & T (see Fusō), is the same on the first page; on the second page, Kogure Gunjij was commanding Yamashiro. - Dank (push to talk) 23:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

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14" guns

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Regarding the comment in the beginning of the article, you state that the Yamashiro and Fuso 'only' had 14" guns and were outmoded by other Japanese Battleships at the start of the War. Only 4 Japanese battleships had larger than 14" guns, the other 8 battleships had 14" guns. 155.178.180.12 (talk) 17:52, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Every class of BBs built since the Washington Naval Treaty had 15" guns or larger other than the KGV-class ships.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply