IJN Fusō

Sunk

Type	Battleship
Class	Fusō
War	Second World War
Main guns	12 × 14″ guns in 6 twin turrets

Refits

1930–1935

Rebuilt: a pagoda mast, torpedo bulges, thicker deck armour, new engines, and more elevation for her big guns.

The first Japanese super-dreadnought, with twelve 14-inch guns. Torpedoed by American destroyers in the Surigao Strait on 25 October 1944, she sank with almost all her crew.

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Fusō undergoing post-reconstruction trials. Photo: Unknown, assumed official photographer as this a high-quality photo unlikely to be taken by an amateur and the IJN severely restricted professional photography of its ships after World War I., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

6 × twin 356 mm (14 in) guns
16 × single 152 mm (6 in) guns
6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

Armour

Waterline belt 229–305 mm (9–12 in)
Deck: 32–51 mm (1.3–2.0 in)
Gun turrets: 229–279 mm (9–11 in)
Barbettes: 203–305 mm (8–12 in)
Conning tower: 351 mm (13.8 in)

Builder	Kure Naval Arsenal
Laid down	11 March 1912
Launched	28 March 1914
Commissioned	8 November 1915
Displacement	29,330 long tons (29,801 t) (standard) 35,900 long tons (36,476 t) (full load)
Length	192.1 m (630 ft 3 in) (pp) 202.7 m (665 ft) (overall)
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Complement	1,198

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

28 March 1914

Refit

1930–1935

Rebuilt: a pagoda mast, torpedo bulges, thicker deck armour, new engines, and more elevation for her big guns.

Battle of Surigao Strait

Sunk

24–25 October 1944

Torpedoed by Melvin