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Stories and Battle Histories of the IJN's Battleships

(Updated 8 January 2009)

By Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Lars Ahlberg

Discussion & Questions

This page of Tabular Records of Movement (TROMs) for battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy has been prepared by Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Lars Ahlberg from Japanese and American source materials.

Shortcuts to Special Features related to Japanese battleships

The Fate of Battleship KONGO

Death of Battleship HIEI

Shell Game at Surigao: The entangled fates of battleships FUSO and YAMASHIRO

Japanese Battleships: Tabular Records of Movement (TROMs)

(Class types link to specification summaries)

Yamato-class

Yamato (revised 6/6/2006)
Musashi (revised 6/6/2006)

Nagato Class

Nagato (revised 1/1/2009)
Mutsu (revised 1/1/2009)

Kongo-class

Kongo (revised 6/6/2006)
Hiei (revised 1/2/2009)
Kirishima (revised 1/2/2009)
Haruna (revised 6/6/2006)
Ise Class

Ise (revised 1/1/2009)
Hyuga (revised 1/1/2009)

Fuso Class

Fuso (revised 1/8/2009)
Yamashiro (revised 1/8/2009)

Bibliography of Sources

About the Authors

Mr. Robert Hackett is a military historian and researcher. Retired from the United States Air Force and later from the aerospace industry, he resides in the United States. In collaboration with Mr. Kingsepp, he prepared the TROMs for the IJN's battleships, cruisers, submarines and other IJN warships presented on this and other pages on this website.

Mr. Sander Kingsepp, a native of Estonia, is also a military historian and researcher. He is an editor of a construction magazine. A talented linguist, Sander's translations of Japanese source materials have added immeasurably to these TROMs.

Major Lars Ahlberg is on active duty with the Swedish Air Defence Regiment. He resides in Halmstad, Sweden and is a military historian by avocation. He has written monographs about NAGATO, MUTSU and carrier TAIHÔ.

Questions to the authors concerning these TROMs should be posted on the Discussion and Questions board.