Japanese warship Hiei - Kongo Class Battlecruiser
Hiei - warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the second of four Kongo-class battlecruisers - formally commissioned in 1914. Battlecruisers carried less armour than Battleships, allowing them more speed, but often had similar weaponry and were of a similar size
Picture No
10989188
Media ID
46720184
Size
5333px x 3377px
(3.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1915
