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Fusō (Japanese: 扶桑; a classical name for Japan) was the lead ship of the two Fusō-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The Fusō-class battleships (扶桑型戦艦, Fusō-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before World War

after the ancient Yamashiro Province) was the second of two Fusō-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Launched in 1915 and

named Fusō: Japanese ironclad Fusō, an ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that fought in the Battle of Yalu River. Japanese battleship Fusō, lead

Battle of Yalu River Japanese battleship Fusō, lead ship of the Fusō class Fusō-class battleship, a class of two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy

ship was subsequently scrapped in 1946–1947. The Fusō-class battleships (扶桑型戦艦, Fusō-gata senkan), Fusō and Yamashiro, were a pair of dreadnoughts built

1 mph), Kirishima was reclassified as a fast battleship. In August 1936, Kirishima departed Sasebo alongside Fusō to patrol the Chinese coast off Amoy. From

only three classes of World War I-era capital ships—the Fusō class and Ise-class battleships, and the Kongō-class battlecruisers—remained active. In July

ships remained active: the Ise-class battleships, the Kongō-class battlecruisers, and the Fusō-class battleships. In April 1923, Kongō gave transportation

gun for its Bretagne-class battleships, laid down in 1912. That year, Japan laid down the first of its Fusō-class battleships, also armed with a 14-inch