Japanese battleship Kirishima

Kirishima was the Imperial Japanese Navy's fourth Kongo class battlecruiser, and was laid down by Mitsubishi in Nagasaki on March 17, 1912, launched on December 1, 1913 and commissioned on April 19, 1915.

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  Off Amoy, China, on 21 October 1938. Photographed from USS Pillsbury (DD-227).