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BB Hijuga
Imperial Japanese Navy battleship
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Hijuga | 1915/05/06 Nagasaki Kobe | 1917/01/27 | 1918/04/30 | 1945/07/24
sunk | |
| Namesake: A province, contains Miyazaki | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 41 | 1stFlt/BatDiv2 | ||||
| 41/12/07 | 41/12/13 | MainFor | sail from Hashiradzima to Bonins and back | 99 | |
| 41/12/08 | MainFor/BatDiv2 | ||||
| 41/12/13 | 42/03/11 | Hashiradzima | 99 | ||
| 42/03/11 | 42/03/16 | sail with Zuikaku, Shokaku and Ise searching for enemy believed approaching to homeland | 99 | ||
| 42/03/16 | 42/03/20 | Ise Bay | 99 | ||
| 42/03/21 | 42/04/18 | Hashiradzima | 99 | ||
| 42/04/18 | 42/04/22 | BatDiv2 | departed Hashirajima to search TF 16 after Doolittle's raid, then return back | 99 | |
| 42/05/05 | BatDiv2 | exercises off Iyo Nada - damaged by explosion of #5 turret - departed for Kure | 99 | ||
| 42/05/06 | 42/05/25 | Kure Kaigun Kosho - repairs | 99 | ||
| 42/05/29 | 42/06/14 | AA1/AleCovFor/BatDiv2/FF | xMidway | ||
| 42/06/14 | 42/06/22 | BatDiv2 | Jokosuka | 99 | |
| 42/06/24 | 42/10/26 | Hashiradzima | 99 | ||
| 42/07/14 | 1stFlt/BatDiv1 | IJN reorganization | 99 | ||
| 42/10/26 | 42/11/01 | Kure Kaigun Kosho - drydock | 99 | ||
| 42/11/01 | 43/06/30 | Hashiradzima | 99 | ||
| 43/04/11 | 43/04/28 | Kure Kaigun Kosho | 99 | ||
| 43/04/29 | arrived Sasebo | 99 | |||
| 43/07/01 | 43/11/18 | Sasebo - conversion to battleship-aircraft carrier | 99 | ||
| 43/07/01 | 43/10/01 | Sasebo - drydock | 99 | ||
| 43/11/18 | 43/11/19 | sail from Sasebo to Tokujama | 99 | ||
| 43/11/22 | 43/11/26 | Iyo Nada - trials | 99 | ||
| 43/11/30 | 44/02/25 | 1stFlt/BatDiv2 | 99 | ||
| 43/12 | 44/06 | Japan - training duties | |||
| 43/12/01 | Kure - Hashiradzima area - trainig | 99 | |||
| 44/02/25 | 44/05/01 | CF/BatDiv2 | 99 | ||
| 44/05/01 | 3rdFlt/CarDiv4 | 634th kokutai | 99 | ||
| 44/05/24 | Kure - 24x25 added | 99 | |||
| 44/06/07 | Kure Kaigun Kosho - radars added | 99 | |||
| 44/06/23 | Hiroshima Bay | 99 | |||
| 44/10/20 | 44/10/30 | MainFor/CarDiv4/DF | xLeyte | ||
| 44/10/25 | MainFor/CarDiv4/DF | xEngano - damaged by near misses | 104 | ||
| 44/10/30 | Inland Sea | ||||
| 44/11/07 | 44/11/08 | Sasebo | 99 | ||
| 44/11/08 | 44/11/16 | transport run from Kure to Manila, diverted to Spratly Is. | 99 | ||
| 44/11/15 | 2ndFlt/CarDiv4 | 99 | |||
| 44/11/18 | 44/11/22 | StrFor2/CarDiv4 | sail from Pratas Is. to Lingga Roads | 99 | |
| 44/11/22 | 44/12/10 | CarDiv4 | Lingga Roads | 99 | |
| 44/12/12 | 44/12/14 | CarDiv4 | sail from Lingga Roads to Cam Ranh Bay | 99 | |
| 44/12/30 | 45/01/01 | sail from Cam Ranh Bay to Singapore | 99 | ||
| 45/01/01 | 45/02/05 | Lingga Roads | 99 | ||
| 45/02/10 | 45/02/20 | sail from Singapore to Kure | 99 | ||
| 45/02/10 | 45/02/20 | sail from Singapore to Kure | 99 | ||
| 45/02/11 | Lingga Roads (off Singapore) sail to Kure - found (Tantalus) | ||||
| 45/02/12 | recovered(Blaskfish) | ||||
| 45/02/13 | attacked by Bergall off Cape Batagan, French Indochina | 122 | |||
| 45/02/20 | 45/09 | Kure | 99 | ||
| 45/03/19 | damage(TF 58) Kure - 40 KIA | 99 | |||
| 45/07/24 | sunk(TF 37,TF 38) in Hiro Bay, Kure (34-10N, 132-33E) | 85 | |||