An item reported that the Japanese battleship Kongo with success her artillery tests passed. The main armament consisted of 10-35,6cm guns and which each gun was 10 times fired on various elevation angles. Further more she was fitted out with 16-15,2cm guns.(1)
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1.Of the Kongo-class consisting of the Kongo, Haruna, Hiei and Kirishima. Laid down at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom on 17 January 1911, launched on 18 May 1912, completed on 16 August 1913, In 1924, 1927-1928 modernized and reconstructed September 1929-31 March 1931 reconstructed into a battleship, after modernizing 1 June 1935-8 January 1937 was she a classified as a fast battleship and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Sealion around 55 nautical miles north west of Keelung after entering Formosa Strait 1 day earlier on 21 November 1944. Designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston. Sir Thomas George OwensThurston (1869-22 January 1950), studied naval architecture in Liverpool and Newcastle-on-Tyne and was in the first half of the 20th Century an import naval architect.
