"Hiei" - the battle cruiser of the Japanese imperial fleet of the type "Congo" (Total built 4 units - "Congo" ( Kongo ), "Hiei" ( Hiei ), "Kirishima" ( Kirishima ), "Haruna" ( Haruna ) [2] ) .
| "Hiei" | |
|---|---|
 The Hiei battle cruiser, 1915. | |
| Service | |
 Japan | |
| Ship class and type | Battle cruiser |
| Manufacturer | Yokosuka shipyard |
| Construction started | November 4, 1911 |
| Launched | November 21, 1912 |
| Commissioned | August 1914 |
| Status | Sunk on the night of November 13-14, 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | Standard - 32 350 tons, total - 38,200 ... 38,900 t |
| Length | 219.5 / 222.1 m |
| Width | 29.3 m |
| Draft | 9.7 m |
| Booking | belt - 203 ... 76 mm; traverses up to 203 mm; deck - 80 ... 152 mm; towers - up to 229 mm; barbety - 229 mm; casemates - 152 mm |
| Engines | 4 mal kampon |
| Power | 136,000 liters with. (100 MW ) |
| Travel speed | 30 knots (55,56 km / h ) |
| Navigation range | 10,000 nautical miles at 18 knots |
| Crew | 1437 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 4 × 2 - 356 mm / 45, 14 × 1 - 152/50 |
| Flak | 4 × 2 - 127 mm / 40, 10 × 2 - 25 mm / 60 |
| Aviation Group | 1 catapult 3 seaplanes [1] |
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Creation History
"Hiey" [3] - laid down on November 4, 1911, lowered on November 21, 1912, was commissioned in August 1914 .
The ship was laid on the stocks in Yokosuka . It was built according to English drawings, like the first ship of the Congo series, but by Japanese engineers.
Service history
Hiei sunk in the battle for Guadalcanal . It fired 50 shells in a night battle on November 13-14, 1942, and one bomb from a B-17 bomber , as well as two torpedoes dropped from aircraft from the aircraft carrier aviation group Enterprise . "Hiei" became the first Japanese battle cruiser, who died in World War II .
Detection
The sunken battle cruiser was discovered in early 2018 by Japanese researchers when studying the seabed in the flooded area using a sonar [4] .
On January 31, 2019, an expedition based on the research vessel Petrel (the expedition was funded by the Paul Allen Foundation), reported on the identification of previously discovered wreckage as remains of the Hiei battle cruiser. The study of the wreckage was carried out using deep-sea autonomous remotely operated vehicles (ROV, Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle ). The remains are located at a depth of 985 meters in the Solomon Sea northwest of Savo Island (9 ° 0'0 "N 158 ° 59'59" E) [5] and are part of a hull about 150 meters long, lying on the bottom upward with a keel . The bow of the ship with a length of about 70 meters is completely lost and not detected. Presumably, it was cut off due to the detonation of the cellars of the ammunition of the nose towers of the guns of the main caliber [6] [7] [8] . According to the statement by Paul Mayer, the lead explorer of the expedition, at a distance of about 7.5 kilometers from the Hiei wreckage, are the remains of the Kirishima battle cruiser that sank the next day (November 15, 1942) in the same area [9] .
Notes
- ↑ All figures are for December 1941.
- ↑ Transcription of Japanese names is given by Yu. V. Apalkov directory.
- ↑ Named after the monastic mountain near Kyoto. See: Apalkov Yu. V. S. 95.
- ↑ Ryall, Julian . Wreck of Japanese battleship Hiei may have been located off Solomon Islands (eng.) , The Telegraph (February 26, 2018). The appeal date is March 8, 2019.
- ↑ Wreck of HIJMS Hiei (比叡) - Wikimapia (English) . wikimapia.org. The appeal date is March 8, 2019.
- Re Wreckage of Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Hiei, first recorded in WWII, discovered in Solomons (Eng.) , The Japan Times Online (February 8, 2019). The appeal date is March 8, 2019.
- ↑ Kyle Mizokami. The First Japanese Battleship of the Sunk in the WWII Finally Has Been Discovered (English) (Neopr.) ? . Popular Mechanics (February 7, 2019). The appeal date is March 8, 2019.
- ↑ RV Petrel . www.facebook.com. The appeal date is March 8, 2019.
- ↑ RV Petrel (English) // Wikipedia. - 2019-02-27.