Yamato

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Kure Navy Yard
Kure, Japan
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
March 1937
Commissioned:
December 16, 1941
Keel Laid:
November 4, 1937
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
August 8, 1940
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:

Sunk Apr. 7, 1945 by US carrier aircraft (bombs and torpedoes).

Location: East China Sea, 196 miles southwest of Nagasaki, Japan.
(30.22N - 128.04E)

2,498 crewmen killed, 280 survivors.


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 13, 2008