Five vessels were initially planned to make up the Yamato class, but only three were completed. The lead ship of the class, the Yamato, was commissioned in 1941, just days after Japan’s deadly ...

Naturally the technology improved quite a bit in those intervening centuries, but the idea was more or less the same: the ship with the ... Iowa, and Yamato class battleships.

Alongside her sister ship Yamato, Musashi was among the largest ... Named after the former Japanese province of Musashi, she was one of three Yamato-class battleships constructed for the ...

“From the weather conditions on record--with thick clouds hanging low--and the wide wake behind the ship, it is almost certain that it is the Yamato,” said Yusuke Orita from the grou ...