![]() Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing carrier fleet, Kongō was reclassified as a fast battleship. In 1935, her superstructure was completely rebuilt, her speed was increased, and she was equipped with launch catapults for floatplanes. Beginning in 1929, the Imperial Japanese Navy rebuilt her as a battleship, strengthening her armor and improving her speed and power capabilities. Kongō underwent two major reconstructions. She was formally commissioned in 1913, and patrolled off the Chinese coast during World War I. Kongō was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan. Her designer was the British naval engineer George Thurston, and she was laid down in 1911 at Barrow-in-Furness in Britain by Vickers Shipbuilding Company. She was the first battlecruiser of the Kongō class, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Kongō (金剛, Japanese equivalent of Vajra, translation variants include "Divine Thunder", "Indestructible Diamond" or "Indra's Spear", named for Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. Kongō on the ways at Barrow, showing two of the propellers and the port rudder, Scientific American, 1913 Sunk by USS Sealion in the Formosa Strait, 21 November 1944ġ0,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) ![]() Vickers Shipbuilding Company, Barrow-in-Furness ![]()
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