Japanese Battleship Yamashiro

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yamashiro was the Imperial Japanese Navy's second Fus¿-class battleship, and was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on November 20, 1913, launched on November 3, 1915, and commissioned on March 31, 1917. She was the first Japanese vessel equipped with aircraft catapults. The ship was named after the Japanese province where Kyoto is located. The Yamashiro was reconstructed from December 1930 to March 1935. The original 24 coal-fired Mijabara boilers producing 40,000 hp were replaced with six new Kanpon oil-fired boilers producing 75,000 hp. Torpedo bulges were fitted, increasing beam from 94 feet (29 m) to 100 feet (30 m), 6 inches.