Japanese battleship Haruna
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 Haruna under way |
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 1911 |
| Laid down: | 16 March 1912 |
| Launched: | 14 December 1913 |
| Commissioned: | 19 April 1915 |
| Fate: | Sunk by airplanes at her moorings at Kure Naval Base on 28 July 1945 |
| Struck: | Raised and Scapped at 2 December 1946 - 14 February 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 36,600 tons |
| Length: | 222.0 m (728 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 31.0 m (101 ft 8 in) |
| Draught: | 9.7 m (31 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: | steam turbines, 4 shafts |
| Speed: | 30 knots (55 km/h) |
| Range: | 9,500 nm at 14 kt (17,600 km at 25 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,360 |
| Armament: | 8 × 14 inch guns, 16 × 6 inch guns, 8 × 5 inch DP, up to 118 × 25 mm AA |
Haruna (榛名) was a Kongō class battleship laid down by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe on 16 March 1912, launched on 14 December 1913 and completed on 19 April 1915. She was named after Mount Haruna, an active volcano.
In World War II Haruna provided distant cover for the Dutch East Indies invasion forces in January and February 1942, sortied into the Indian Ocean against the British Eastern Fleet with the Carrier Striking Force in April 1942, participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the bombardment of the Henderson Field with the Kongo on 13 October 1942, the Battle of Santa Cruz Island on 25 October 1942, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, and the Battle off Samar in October 1944.
Haruna was attacked by enemy American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 and B-24 bombers of the United States Army Air Forces while at Kure on 28 July 1945 and sank at her moorings with the loss of 65 of her crew, was stricken from the Navy List on 20 November 1945 and her hulk raised and broken up in 1946. 
[edit] Commanding Officers
Chief Equipping Officer - Capt. Kajihiro Funakoshi - 15 December 1914 - 19 April 1915
Capt. Kajihiro Funakoshi - 19 April 1915 - 13 December 1915
Capt. Mitsuzo Nunome - 13 December 1915 - 1 December 1916
Capt. Saburo Hyakutake - 1 December 1916 - 15 September 1917
Capt. Naomi Taniguchi - 15 September 1917 - 1 December 1917
Capt. Tsuneha Sano - 1 December 1917 - 20 December 1919
Capt. Shokichi Oishi - 20 December 1919 - 20 November 1920
Capt. Heishiro Omi - 20 November 1920 - 20 November 1921
Capt. Kichiji Ueda - 20 November 1921 - 1 July 1922
Capt. Takeshi Koyama - 1 July 1922 - 10 November 1922
Capt. Hatsuji Mori - 10 November 1922 - 1 December 1922
Capt. Chikaharu Koizumi - 1 December 1922 - 1 December 1923
Capt. Kesaichi Hitsuda - 1 December 1923 - 15 April 1924
Capt. Wataru Ugawa - 15 April 1924 - 1 September 1924
Capt. Hiroaki Tamura - 1 September 1924 - 1 December 1924
Capt. Naokata Kondo - 1 December 1924 - 10 July 1925
Capt. Kiyoshi Ishikawa - 10 July 1925 - 1 December 1926
Capt. Rokuya Mashiko - 1 December 1926 - 1 December 1927
Capt. Iwajiro Torin - 1 December 1927 - 28 December 1927
Capt. Kizo Isumi - 28 December 1927 - 10 December 1928
Capt. Akira Goto - 10 December 1928 - 30 November 1929
Capt. Jugoro Arichi - 30 November 1929 - 10 February 1931
Capt. Minoru Sonoda - 10 February 1931 - 1 December 1931
Capt. Tokutaro Sumiyama - 1 December 1931 - 15 November 1932
Capt. Eikichi Katagiri - 15 November 1932 - 15 November 1933
Capt. Shunzo Mito - 15 November 1933 - 16 April 1935
Capt. Yasutaro Iwashita - 16 April 1935 - 28 October 1935
Capt. Jisaburo Ozawa - 28 October 1935 - 1 December 1936
Capt. Seiichi Ito - 1 December 1936 - 15 November 1937
Capt. Kenshiro Oshima - 15 November 1937 - 9 March 1938
Capt. Junichi Mizuno - 9 March 1938 - 15 July 1938
Capt. Risaburo Fujita - 15 July 1938 - 18 May 1939
Capt. Shoji Nishimura - 18 May 1939 - 1 November 1940
Capt. Susumu Kimura - 1 November 1940 - 20 August 1941
Capt. / RADM Tamotsu Takama - 20 August 1941 - 20 June 1942 (Promoted to Rear Admiral on 1 May 1942.)
Capt. / RADM Keishi Ishii - 20 June 1942 - 14 June 1943 (Promoted to Rear Admiral on 1 May 1943.)
Capt. Nobuei Morishita - 14 June 1943 - 25 January 1944
Capt. / RADM Kazue Shigenaga - 25 January 1944 - 20 December 1944 (Promoted to Rear Admiral on 15 October 1944.)
Capt. Matake Yoshimura - 20 December 1944 - 28 July 1945
[edit] External links
- Maritimequest.com: Haruna photo gallery
- Tabular record of movement from combinedfleet.com
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