Japanese battleship Ise

Ise
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Ise
Namesake:	Ise Province
Ordered:	11 April 1913
Builder:	Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan
Laid down:	10 May 1915
Launched:	12 November 1916
Completed:	15 December 1917
Out of service:	1945
Struck:	28 July 1945
Fate:	Sunk by air attack, 28 July 1945
Status:	Scrapped in place by 1947
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Ise-class battleship
Displacement:	31,260 long tons (31,760 t) (standard) 36,500 long tons (37,100 t) (full load)
Length:	195.07 meters (640.0 ft) (p.p.) 208.18 meters (683.0 ft) (o.a.)
Beam:	28.65 meters (94.0 ft)
Draft:	8.93 meters (29 ft 4 in)
Installed power:	45,000 shp (34,000 kW) 24 × water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	4 × shafts 2 × Brown-Curtis steam turbine sets
Speed:	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range:	9,680 nmi (17,930 km; 11,140 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	1,198
Armament:	6 × twin 356 mm (14 in) guns 16 × single 140 mm (6 in) guns 12 × 76 mm (3 in) guns 4 × 76 mm AA guns 6 × submerged 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 330 mm (13.0 in) Deck: 35–108 mm (1.4–4.3 in) Barbettes: 100–299 mm (3.9–11.8 in) Turrets: 229 to 279 mm (9.0 to 11.0 in) Conning Tower: 305 mm (12.0 in) Bulkheads: 199–225 mm (7.8–8.9 in)

Ise (伊勢（戦艦）, Ise (senkan)^?), was the lead ship of the two-vessel Ise-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which saw combat service during the Pacific War. Ise was named after Ise Province, one of the traditional provinces of Japan, now part of Mie Prefecture.

Originally planned to be the third Fusō-class battleship, experience gained in the construction of the Fusō class revealed a number of design issues, including weak armament and protection, which forced a redesign and new classification.

Ise was laid down at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries shipyard in Kobe on 5 May 1915, launched on 12 November 1916, and completed on 15 December 1917 and assigned to the Kure Naval District.

Completed too late for service in World War I, in the early 1920s, Ise participated in numerous patrols off the Siberia coast and in northern waters in support of Japan's Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army.

On 12 April 1922, while at Yokohama, Ise hosted a delegation which included the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII), who was accompanied by his second cousin, the future Lord Mountbatten of Burma. From the mid-1920s through the late 1930s, Ise patrolled mostly off of the China coast.

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