Japanese battleship Niss(h)in under construction in 1941

An item reported that there was hardly any new information available about the Japanese battleships now being build.There were at least five under construction of which one at the Kure Naval Dockyard, one at the Mitsubishi Company yard, Nagasaki and one at Maiduru or at the Kawasaki shipyard at Kobe. Of those latter third ships two were to be named Kii and Owari. What the value of this assumption of those names was, could not be said. Two battleships projected in 1921 with the same name were cancelled as a result of the Washington Naval Conference. A fourth ship seemed to be the Nissin (1) launched at Kure, Japan on 30 November 1939 and the fifth seemed to be the Takamatu under construction at Yokosuka.

Note

1. In 1942 identified as possible being the seaplane carrier/tender Nisshin of the Nisshin-class, ordered in 1937, laid down by Kure Naval Arsenal on 2 November 1938, launched on 30 November 1939, commissioned on 27 February 1942, lost on an American air attack 40 nautical miles south west of Buin, Papua New Guinea and stricken on 10 September 1943.

Source

Brassey’s Naval Annual 1941