IJN Musashi

Sunk

Type	Battleship
Class	Yamato
War	Second World War
Main guns	9 × 18″ guns in 3 triple turrets

Yamato's sister, the largest battleship ever built with Yamato, and flagship of the Combined Fleet in 1943. Sunk in the Sibuyan Sea on 24 October 1944, at the start of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, after about nineteen torpedoes and seventeen bombs; about 1,000 of her crew died. Her wreck was found in 2015.

The Japanese battleship Musashi leaving Brunei, Borneo, in 1944, possibly on 22 October, when she departed to take part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Photographed by Japanese sailor Tobei Shiraishi from the destroyer Isokaze. Photo: Lieutenant Tobei Shiraishi, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

3 × triple 460 mm (18 in) guns
4 × triple 155 mm (6.1 in) guns
6 × twin 127 mm (5 in) DP guns
12 × triple 25 mm (1 in) AA guns
2 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA machine guns

Armour

Waterline belt: 410 mm (16.1 in)
Deck: 200–230 mm (7.9–9.1 in)
Gun turrets: 250–650 mm (9.8–25.6 in)
Barbettes: 380–560 mm (15–22 in)

Builder	Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki
Laid down	29 March 1938
Launched	1 November 1940
Commissioned	5 August 1942
Displacement	63,000 long tons (64,000 t) (standard)
Length	263 m (862 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Speed	27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph)
Complement	2,500

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

Career

She isn't listed in any of the fleet actions covered here.

Launched

1 November 1940