During World War II, there was also a Japanese battleships named Ise, which was the lead ship of a class of ships that also contained the Hyuga. Both were 35,000 ton warships, and both were sunk, in ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hyūga Was the Last Battleship Sunk in Combat: The second and last of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN’s) Ise-class, Hyūga has the distinction of being the ...

Some ships, like the Japanese battleship and aircraft carrier Ise, are floating flops, while the jury’s still out on other ships, like the American stealth destroyer Zumwalt. The Japanese ...

A expedition launched by the late entrepreneur Paul Allen has discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Hiei, the first battleship sunk by U.S. forces during World War II. About a year ago, ...

It would become a fearsome creature of war: Said to be at that time “the largest battleship in naval history ... as the ship’s rusty bow, with a Japanese seal clearly visible.