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|align="center" width="220px"|<big>[[Kirishima (Japanese battleship, 1913)|Kirishima]]</big><br>霧島
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|width="80px" valign="top"|'''Plan'''||FY1911
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|'''Builder'''||[[Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Nagasaki|MHI Nagasaki]]
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|'''Laid down'''||17 Mar 1912
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|'''Launched'''||1 Dec 1913
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|'''Comm'd'''||19 Apr 1915
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|valign="top"|'''Fate'''||15 Nov 1942 sunk<br>(Solomons)
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|colspan="2"|'''classification'''<br><ul><li>[[Battlecruiser (Japanese Navy)|Battlecruiser]] (1915-1931)<li>[[Battleship (Japanese Navy)|Battleship]] (1931-1942)</ul>
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[[Kirishima (Japanese battleship, 1913)|Kirishima]] [http://admiral31.dip.jp/wiki31/ja/index.php/%E9%9C%A7%E5%B3%B6 霧島] was a Japanese warship ([[Battlecruiser (Japanese Navy)|Battlecruiser]], [[Battleship (Japanese Navy)|Battleship]]). The fourth and last unit of [[Kongo class battlecruisers (IJN, 1912)|Kongo class battlecruisers]]. She was named after Mr.Kirishima stands on border between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.
==Assignment==
===Commanding officer===
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|||1 Dec 1936||[[Captain (Japanese Navy)|CAPT]]||[[Makita Kakusaburo]]||[[38th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|38th class, NA]]||Chief Inst, [[Naval Communication School (Japanese Navy)|Comm School]]||Supt, [[Naval Communication School (Japanese Navy)|Comm School]]||
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|||1 Dec 1937
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===Executive officer===
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|||15 Nov 1935||[[Commander (Japanese Navy)|CDR]]||[[Jojima Takatsugu]]||[[40th class of Naval Academy (Japanese Navy)|40th class, NA]]||XO, [[Aoba (Japanese heavy cruiser, 1926)|Aoba]]||CO-Aux, [[Tsurumi (Japanese oiler, 1921)|Tsurumi]]||
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|||18 Aug 1936
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==reference==
* [[Kirishima (Japanese destroyer, 1993)]]
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