Japanese warship Hiei - Kongo Class Battlecruiser
Hiei - warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the second of four Kongo-class battlecruisers - formally commissioned in 1914. Battlecruisers carried less armour than Battleships, allowing them more speed, but often had similar weaponry and were of a similar size. Date: circa 1915
- Product Code
- ILEA000637017
- Registered date
- 1915/12/31 00:00:00
- Credit
- Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Copyright (c) Mary Evans Picture Library 2015
- Media size
- 5333 × 3377 pixel
- Deployment size
- 3.04(MB)*
- Special instruction
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