Pacific ships

IJN · CA

Takao

Photos and info
Unknown

Takao-class heavy cruiser. In Kondo's bombardment group with Atago and Kirishima. She fired on South Dakota. Not sunk.

Takao classWith Atago and Kirishima on the battleship night off Guadalcanal. Not sunk there.

Presumed official IJN photographer, likely from the collections of Shizuo Fukui. Aft view of Takao, anchored in Sukumo Bay. May 11, 1937.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Command

BABunji AsakuraCaptain from 15 August 1941TIToshihira InoguchiCaptain from 23 February 1943SHShigechika HayashiCaptain from 28 October 1943TITakeo IshisakaCaptain from 22 March 1945

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night

1942-11-15 · fired on South Dakota; not sunk

Sunk
AsagumoDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, night actionNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of the Bismarck SeaBattle of Surigao Strait
Unknown
AtagoCA · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
AyanamiDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
BenhamDD · DD-397 · USN
Photos and infoBattle of MidwayNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Unknown
GwinDD · DD-433 · USN
Photos and infoBattle of MidwayNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
HatsuyukiDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of Kula Gulf
Unknown
IkazuchiDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, night actionNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
KirishimaBB · IJN
Photos and infoThe loss of EdsallBattle of MidwayNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, night actionNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Unknown
NagaraCL · IJN
Photos and infoBattle of MidwayNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, night actionNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
PrestonDD · DD-379 · USN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
SamidareDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, night actionNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of Vella LavellaBattle of Empress Augusta Bay
Sunk
SendaiCL · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of Empress Augusta Bay
Unknown
ShikinamiDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of the Bismarck Sea
Sunk
ShirayukiDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of the Bismarck Sea
Afloat
South DakotaBB · BB-57 · USN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Sunk
Diagram of the class, not a photograph of this ship
TeruzukiDD · IJN · class drawing
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, night actionNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightLoss of Teruzuki
Unknown
UranamiDD · IJN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship nightBattle of the Bismarck Sea
Sunk
WalkeDD · DD-416 · USN
Photos and infoBattle of the Coral SeaNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
Afloat
WashingtonBB · BB-56 · USN
Photos and infoNaval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night