HIJMS Kongō

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This is a remix of "IJN Kongo" by hatsuneR that I resized to the limits of the TINKERCAD workplane. Kongō, named for Mount Kongō, was an indomitable warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the pioneering battlecruiser of the Kongō class, boasting the most formidable arsenal in any navy when constructed. Her visionary designer was George Thurston, a renowned British naval engineer, who laid her keel down in 1911 at Barrow-in-Furness in Britain by Vickers Shipbuilding Company. Kongō marked the final instance of a Japanese capital ship built outside Japan's borders. She was formally commissioned in 1913 and patrolled off the Chinese coast during World War I. Kongō underwent two transformative reconstructions. Beginning in 1929, the Imperial Japanese Navy revamped her as a battleship, bolstering her armor and enhancing her speed and power capabilities. In 1935, her superstructure was completely renovated, her speed increased, and she was equipped with launch catapults for floatplanes. Now capable of keeping pace with Japan's expanding carrier fleet, Kongō was reclassified as a fast battleship. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kongō operated off the coast of mainland China before being redeployed to the Third Battleship Division in 1941. In 1942, she sailed as part of the Southern Force in preparation for the Battle of Singapore. Kongō fought in numerous pivotal naval actions of the Pacific War during World War II. She shielded the Japanese Army's amphibious landings in British Malaya (part of present-day Malaysia) and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1942, before engaging American forces at the Battle of Midway and during the Guadalcanal Campaign. Throughout 1943, Kongō primarily remained anchored at Truk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands, Kure Naval Base (near Hiroshima), Sasebo Naval Base (near Nagasaki), and Lingga Roads, and deployed several times in response to American aircraft carrier air raids on Japanese island bases scattered across the Pacific. Kongō participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 (22–23 October), engaging and sinking American vessels in the latter. Kongō was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sealion while transiting the Formosa Strait on 21 November 1944. She remained the only Japanese battleship sunk by a submarine in the Second World War. History Namesake: Mount Kongō Ordered: 1911 Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding Company, Barrow-in-Furness Laid down: January 17, 1911 Launched: May 18, 1912 Commissioned: August 16, 1913 Struck: January 20, 1945 Fate: Sunk by USS Sealion in the Formosa Strait on November 21, 1944 General characteristics Class and type: Kongō-class battlecruiser Displacement: 36,600 long tons (37,187 t) Length: 222 meters (728 ft 4 in) Beam: 31 meters (101 ft 8 in) Draught: 9.7 meters (31 ft 10 in) Propulsion: Steam turbines, 4 shafts Speed: 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) Range: 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) Complement: 1360 Armament: 1913: 8 × 356 mm (14 in) naval gun (4×2) 16 × 6-inch (15 cm) 50 caliber naval guns (16×1) 8 × 76 mm (3 in) naval guns (8×1) 4 × 6.5 mm (0.26 in) machine gun 1944: 8 × 356 mm (14 in) naval gun (4×2) 8 × 152 mm (6 in) naval gun (8×1) 8 × 127 mm (5.0 in) guns (4×2) 122 × 25 mm Type 96 Antiaircraft autocannon Armor: Waterline belt: 203–279 mm (8–11 in) Deck: 38–58 mm (1.5–2.3 in) (later strengthened) Gun turrets: 229 mm (9 in) Barbettes: 254 mm (10 in)